Page 4 THE BATTALION Official Notices REGISTRATION FOR THE SEC-+ OND TERM OF SUMMER SCHOOL Those students who were in at tendance in A. & M. for the first term of the 1941 summer session may pay their fees at the Fiscal Office beginning at 8 a. m., Thurs day, July 17. The receipt showing payment of fees for the first term of summer school must be present ed to the cashier at the time the student expects to pay his fees. Students living in the dormitory are expected to reserve their rooms by Saturday noon, July 19th; other wise, the rooms are likely to be as signed to other individuals. —H. L. Heaton, Acting Registrar. CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES All candidates for Baccalaureate degrees and Master’s degrees to be conferred in August, 1941 should make application for these degrees in the Registrar’s Office at once. Applications for either the Bac calaureate degrees or the Masters degrees should be filed at this time for all those who plan to fin ish either at the end of the first term of summer school or the sec ond term. OLD RETURNING STUDENTS All old students who were not in attendance at A. & M. at the end of the 1940-41 session, and who expect to register in September, should come by the Registrar’s Of fice and secure re-enrollment per mits. —H. L. Heaton, Acting Registrar P LIVE YOUR LIFE OF LEISURE IIS... mmm Sc-v 1 I In-and-outer shirt with || \ harmonizing slacks, ill Designed for a com fortable leisure life, y $3.95 to $9.95 SPORT SHIRTS $1.00 to $2.50 fllaldropefi “Two Convenient Stores” College Station - Bryan NEW STUDENTS All new students registered in A. & M. for the first time who ex pect to register here in September, should come by the Registrar’s Of fice and secure a new entrance card. Storage Rooms Storage rooms in the basement of Guion Hall (rear entrance) and in basement of Dormitory No. 3, (Briggs Hall) will be open for business from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 19 and on Mon day, July 21. Storage rooms will not be open for business again until September. Wendell R. Horsley, Chairman Student Labor Committee Classified FOR SALE—Wooden lawn chairs made by Farm Shop stu dents. Will be sold at reasonable price. Agri. Eng. Dept. Aggie to work afternoon or night. Must be able to paint signs fairly well. Preferably fresh man - to work 3 or 4 more years. Campus Theater. RIDE TO CALIFORNIA for four. Leaving Saturday night or Sunday. See Lee Lacy, Catholic Church basement or phone Pu- gatch, 4-4764, North Gate Project House. Randolph Flying Cadets And fledgling pilots at the “West Point of the Air” move to their basic training planes for an other morning aloft in the Texas skies. Within a few short minutes this seemingly endless line of over 150 sturdy trainers will be in flight with its student pilots—just another step nearer America’s program of training 30,000 pilots a year. Completing their ten weeks and 70 hours aloft at Randolph Field, Texas, classes of almost 400 Flying Cadets leave this south Texas school every five weeks for advanced fields to complete their training for wings and commissions. Follows then active duty, as the young flying of ficers “Keep ’em Flying” with the Army Air Corps. Library Books Due • All Library books are due on Monday, July 14, and must be re turned promptly. Signed: Thomas F. Mayo, Librarian Farm Security— (Continued from Page 1) get more meat, milk and eggs. C. T. Watson, Acting State FSA Director from Dallas, was in charge of the meeting. A plan whereby children of Farm Security borrower families might help in the “food for defense” campaign was adopted at the meet ing. Children, both boys and girls from 9 to 20, whose parents are FSA borrowers or prospective bor rowers may borrow the money to buy a calf, pig, or poultry to be raised on the home farm with farm-grown feed. “These youngsters will ban into “FSA Pig for Britain Clubs’,” ac cording to Earl Patterson, San Antonio, who developed the idea. “There will also be ‘Calf for Brit ain Clubs’ and ‘Poultry for Brit ain Clubs’,” he said. These ani mals will be fattened in accord ance with the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s food and defense program and sold. “Money derived from the sale will pay off the FSA loan and the remainder invested in United States Defense Boands and stamps,” he continued. The plan is being put into operation in Atascosa county first and will be expanded to other counties later. “In addition to helping national defense, this plan provides a means by which children in small-farm families can help their country and at the same time start an invest ment in Defense Bonds and Stamps,” Patterson pointed out. During the annual Farm Se curity meeting, which was cut to three days this year because of urgent need for speed in the “Food for Defense” program, FSA work ers attended conferences both day and evening. DIKE AM DANCE With Your OLD FRIENDS, THE HRDLIGKAS GOOD FOOD —GOOD FUN Hrdlicka’s Vz Mile South on the Old College Road Short Course— (Continued from Page 1) culture, extended greetings, and introduced speakers and prominent guests. Thirty-four sectional meetings were held between 10 a. m. and noon, and a like number from 2 to 4 p. m. Monday. On Tuesday, 32 meetings were held during the morning program and 36 during the afternoon. The meetings were so spaced over the two days that visitors were able to hear many of the discussions. The adult section of the short course closed with a program be ginning at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday, in the stadium, which included group singing and a pageant, “Freedoms We Defend,” performed by stu dents of the Austin High School, Bryan. Other groups held conferences or annual sessions at the college parallel with the short course. On Monday, the Texas Master Farmers' Association held a two- hour get-together with Eugene Butler of Dallas presiding. Plans for the annual meeting of the Or ganization at Waco in January were discussed. A joint conference was held Tuesday by the Texas Wildlife Federation; Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission, and the Texas Nature Federation. The Mid-South Texas Hereford Breeders’ Associa tion held a meeting with a lunch eon on Tuesday. Highlights on Monday’s Short- Course program included: Discus sions of problems submitted by county land use planning commit tees, Bassett Orr and C. A. Bon- nen, speakers; Agricultural credit clinic, with Louise Bryan and T. R. Timm of the Extension Service, and representatives of six farm credit institutions present to an swer questions; Attractive every day foods for defense, Jennie Camp, Jessie Whitacre and Zetha Mclnnis, speakers; Planning the family wardrobe, Mrs. Dora R. Barnes speaker; Insect control clinic, Cameron Siddall, speaker; and Texas cooperatives in action— a moving picture, C. E. Bowles, speaker. Tuesday’s program featured achievements of 4-H scholarship girls, with 4-H Club girls as speak ers. Bernice Claytor spoke on “Furnishing Your Home With Cot ton,” and Roy W. Snyder, exten sion animal industries specialist, gave a talk on killing, cutting and curing meat. Need a Pick-up? TRY Ice Cream CREAMLAND Mrs. ParkhilFs Lunches $5.50 Meal Tickets $5.00 $3.30 Meal Tickets $3.00 Aeronautical Training Laboratories Rates One Of Largest In Southwest Visitors to the campus of A. &4-in the equipment owned by the M. College would little recog nize the old laundry building which was given to the department of aeronautical engineering at the be ginning of the 1940-41 school term to turn into a modern aeronautical engineering department. It is in fact one of the largest and most complete aeronautical training lab oratories in the southwest. Fourteen airplane engines, a wind tunnel, and two partially dis- embelled airplanes ‘ constitute a part of the equipment found in the aeronautical engineering lab oratory found in the old laundry building at A. & M. College. The department of aeronautical engi neering was organized and put into operation for the first time during the school year 1940-41 under the direction of Dr. H. W. Barlow. The United States Army Air Corps has given the department four radial type airplane engines which develop from 40 to 600 horse power each. One of these motors is a Wright Cyclone and the other three are Pratt Whitney Wasp engines. In addition to these there are four World War I type rotary engines which were given to the department by T. L. Smith, Jr., A. & M. ’98 now living in Houston. Other engines are a 140 horse power Sturdevant engine of the V-8 type and a 50 horsepower Lycoming engine as is used in the primary training planes of the Civilian Pilot Training courses. Two water cooled V-8 type 90 horsepower Curtiss OX5 engines such as those used in the World War planes known as Jennys, a Curtiss V12-3 air cooled and a five cylinder 125 horsepower Warner engine complete the group. All of these have been reconditioned by students working in the aeronaut ical engineering department and was used for instruction pur poses. Many propellers of var ious types are available for in struction, the most modern of which is a Hamilton Standard con stant speed propeller furnished to the shop by the United Airlines. A wind tunnel was recently com pleted by the students working in the department and is to be used in testing aircraft models. The structure was designed by E. J. Lesher, instructor in aerodynamics, and was constructed by the students under his direction. The entire tunnel is approximately 25 feet long, has a two by three foot throat, and is capable of creating a wind of from 80 to 100 miles per hour. The power is supplied by a model A Ford engine which has been converted and rebuilt for use with the wind tunnel. Two airplanes partly disassem bled are used for instruction. One of these is a PT-3A Army Pri mary trainer given to the depart ment by the Army and built by Consolidated Aircraft Corporation. The other ship is an Eaglerock built in about 1927 and now used as a “run-in” stand for the 50 horsepower Lycoming engine. This was used for demonstration during the recent engineer’s day exhibit. Numerous control surfaces are stored in racks around the walls and have been collected from var ious places. A complete set of aircraft nav igation instruments are included department. These instruments and airplane accessories are used in demonstration and teaching of the aeronautical engineering courses. Meterological instruments for determining humidity, barometric pressure, wind velocity, and direc tion are also included in the equip ment. Remodeling Of Cotton Harvester Nears Completion H. P. Smith, chief of division of Agricultural Engineering, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, states that the re-designing and re modeling of the mechanical cotton harvester is nearing completion, with the complete rebuilt machine to be ready for operation about September 1. This remodeled mechanical har vester is to be used this fall on several varieties of cotton as it has been in the last few years. There are three processes that must be considered in the mechanical harvesting of cotton. They are: harvesting, extracting, and clean ing. At the present time, it is the cleaning of the cotton that of fers one of the greatest troubles, since cotton in this section has a large amount of foliage. Also, foliage seriously affects the clean ing problem in that the leaves get on the cotton and are very hard to separate from the seed cotton. Mr. M. H. Byrom, Assistant Agricultural Engineer, is in charge of construction and all mechanical work of the cotton harvester. Preliminary tests in U. S. De partment of Agriculture laborator ies show that rotenone and pyreth- rum, insecticidal materials hereto fore used only as sprays or dusts, can be converted easily into fumi gants that may be'even more dead ly. The two properties are highly toxic to insects but not to man. ,EBA' e ' IHS BATES 1 \\cV0T Afceco’ Sweeter Than The Sweetest Glenn Miller Georgia On My Mind Artie Shaw and Orchestra Green Eyes Tony Pastor The Things I Love Jan Savitt Loveless and Love Larry Clinton Intermezzo Joan Merrill Aik about the new RCA Victor Long Life Needle HASWELLS Bryan -WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1941 College Exhibits Shown At Cotton Congress In Waco Extensive cotton exhibits from points throughout the United States portraying the latest devel opments in growing, processing, marketing, and utilizing cotton and cottonseed products were shown at the Second Cotton Re search Congress held in Waco June 26-28. A display arranged by the several departments of the A. &M. College, including the Ex periment Station and the Exten sion Service, showed the activities of cotton classes and the work of the Agricultural Experiment Station in cotton insect and disease control, cotton breeding, textile research, mechanical harvesting of cotton, research in the chemistry of the cottonseed and in the feed ing of cottonseed products to live stock and poultry. An exhibit by the Division of Agronomy showed phases of the new cotton breeding experiments with live mature plant specimens from the greenhouse. The exhibit illustrated the effect of the drug colchicine on cotton plants to cause initially sterile hybrids be tween American upland and Asi atic and wild types to produce seed. This new breeding technique, unknown until four years ago, gives promise of developing new types of fibers with greater strength, durability, and luster and plants more resistant to in sects and diseases. The work thus far has resulted in producing fibers 25 to 35 per cent stronger than ordinary cotton and with dif ferent fiber characteristics. There are possibilities of producing new types of fibers that may be im mediately adapted to particular new uses, may increase the pres ent uses, or may afford material for chemical and physical process ing, thus giving a much wider range of types for these purposes. Other exhibits from the Exten sion Service, the University of Texas, and various commercial concerns presented considerable progress in the conquest of wide fields in the cotton industry. Twilight Leaguers— (Continued from Page 3) in the final inning. Bill Carll’s catch of a high foul around the screen, too, proved popular with the fans. As for the slugging, Roy Olbrick and Jesse Key led the attack for the Twilight Leaguers in the first game, while Roland Cren shaw came through with two bingles to lead the Bryan attack. Soil erosion has cut the useful life of more than 20 per cent of the water supply reservoirs of the United States to less than 50 years. (Jain/ms Correctly Air-Conditioned by Frigidaire Continuous Showing Schedule Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Saturday and Sunday. 15^ Matinee — 200 Night TODAY and TOMORROW BIG DOUBLE FEATURE No. 1 “South of Suez” with George Brent - Ann Sheridan Shows at 1:30 - 4:21 - 7:12 - 10.03 No. 2 “Blondie Goes Latin” The Bumsteads - Tito Guizar Shows at 2:57 - 5:48 - 8:39 FRIDAY and SATURDAY Another Double Feature . . . and it’s BIG too! No. 1 “Honeymoon For Three” Two of ’em are George Brent - Ann Sheridan Shows at 1:30 - 4:17 - 7:04 - 9:34 No. 2 “Carolina Moon” with Gene Autry Shows at 2:45 - 5:32 - 8:19 - 10:51 Also “Porky Pig” - News Juke Box— (Continued from Page 1) have had fun meeting and as sociating with the participants. Maybe you learned some new dance steps, or did you teach someone else? It seems that the congas and rumbas are making their exits, as the enthusiasm for them has disappeared. “Frenesi” held a mighty cry for requests, and so did “In Apple Blossom Time.” Nothing can beat the ever popu lar “Stardust” though, it will live forever. The smallness of the crowd must have been noticeable for people have asked if the idea of Juke Box shuffling was get ting old and tiresome, is it? PREYUE SAT. NIGHT SUNDAY - MONDAY TgI a y>uv£aSjU>