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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1941)
i Page 4 OFFICIAL NOTICES Summer Press Club The Summer Press Club will meet on the steps of the YMCA at 6:15 Wednesday evening for the last regular meeting of the ses sion. Jack Decker, President. Senior Rings Students who have not taken up their A. & M. class rings will please come by the Registrar’s Office and get their ring as we are getting ready to close our books for the fiscal year 1940-41 and all rings not taken up by the 25th will be returned to the engravers. H. L. Heaton, Act. Registrar. WANTED: One ride to Balti more, Maryland (round-trip or one way). Would like to leave at the end of summer school. Willing to share expenses. Phone Harry H. Lutz, American Legion Hall, or Box 2534, College. FOR SALE — Cocker Spaniel puppies, registered A.K.C. males and females. W. S. Edmonds, Phone 4-7324. —CONFERENCE— (Continued from page 1) of the Purdue University college of engineering, are scheduled. On October 25 morning forums will consider the uses and misuses of tests in school, business, and in dustry, and a special round table on women’s employment will be conducted by Miss Laura Murray, University expert on industrial teacher-training. REMODELING SALE Men’s Suits $17.75 Palm Beach $13.95 $25.00 Suits $19.95 $29.50 Suits $23.95 $35.00 Suits $27.95 $40.00 Suits $31.95 Sport Shirts $1.00 Sport Shirts 79^ $1.65 Sport Shirts $1.29 $1.95 Sport Shirts $1.55 $2.50 Sport Shirts $1.95 Slack Suits $3.95 Slack Suits $3.15 $4.95 Slack Suits $4.85 $6.95 Slack Suits $5.45 $7.95 Slack Suits $6.35 $9.95 Slack Suits $7.95 Sport Shoes $4.00 Fortune $2.95 $5.00 Edgerton..... $3.95 $8.50 Nunn-Bush $6.85 $2.50 Canvas Sport $1.85 Shirts $1.65 Shirts $1.29 $1.95 Shirts $1.55 $2.00 Shirts $1.65 $2.50 Shirts $1.95 Stop in and save on Qual ity Merchandise . . . . You’ll find many splendid values that are not listed here. riTaldrop&<a “Two Convenient Stores” CoUege Station Bryan Deferred Draft Registrants Urged To Assist in State and Local Defense All Selective Service registrants in Texas who have been deferred from military service were urged by General J. Watt Page, State Director, to offer their full assist ance to State and local civilian de fense agencies. Many young men have been granted deferments because of their occupations, because they have dependents, or because they are not physically capable of under going service in the armed forces, General Page said. Nevertheless, he added, they are qualified to per form some work in connection with civilian defense activities and should offer their services to ex isting agencies or those which are being organized. Aid in Emergencies By granting certain men defer ment, Congress, when it adopted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, gave no indication that it intended to excuse these men from the obligation which rests upon every young man—that of helping his country in times of emergency, General Page pointed out. Every man is expected to do his share, in one way or another, when a crisis threatens the na tional security, he said. “Many of our young men have entered the armed fprces, leav ing at home others who for one reason or another have had their military training deferred. Those who remain owe it to those who have been called and owe it to their —COLONEL- (Continued from page 1) will be released. This list will in clude the corps staff, regimental and battalion commanders. Or ganization commanders, executive officers, and acting first sergeants are also included on the first pro motion list. Gillis will retain his position on the Student Publications board. He was elected to this position during his sophomore year. Gabriel, as edi tor of The Battalion, will also be come a member of the Student Publications board. —SOFTBALL— (Continued from Page 3) 9, Faculty 8; Campus Cleaners 10, N. G. Project House 4; Aggie Cleaners 3, Campus Theater 1; Campus Cleaners 9, Campus Thea ter 0; Faculty 4, N. G. Project House 0; and Aggie Cleaners 3, Seaboard Life 2. The league standing at the con clusion of last Friday’s games and including the tied games as one-half game won and one-half game lost was as follows: Team— W L T Pet. Aggie Cleaners ... 6 2 0 .750 Campus Cleaners 5 2 1 .688 Faculty 3 3 2 .500 Seaboard Life 4 4 0 .500 Campus Theater 2 5 1 .313 N. G. P. House 2 6 0 .250 Save Now On Summer Furniture iimi i; II II! :i;!t Nl I II IS! .1 Substantial reduction on all summer furniture and fiber rugs. McCulloch-Dansby Co. Complete Home Furnishers Bryan Phone 2-5164 country to help in its defense when and wherever they are needed. Civilian Defense “They can do their part by of fering their services in the inter ests of civilian defense. In the very near future almost every commu nity will be engaged in civilian de fense activities. Such activities, of course, cover a wide range and should include tasks for all young men who are deferred from mili tary training.” No young man should shirk his responsibility if it is humanly pos sible for him to take part in the increasing civilian defense activi ties, General Page said. Employers Urged to Give Jobs to WPA Men State Work Projects Adminis trator H. P. Drought today urged private employers to help reduce the vast reservoir of jobless Tex ans to whom the drastically cur tailed WPA program can offer slight hope of employment. Of the 150,644 Texas family heads whose certified destitution makes them eligible for WPA em ployment, only 58,150 can be em ployed- on WPA’s limited budget. Seasonal agricultural employment and other temporary work are currently providing jobs for an additional 37,700 men and women from the WPA certified case load. But 54,377 of the necessitous workers are idle, Drought pointed out, and few of them have a chance for WPA employment in the near future. “It is a curious and pathetic paradox,” he declared, “that at a time when defense employment and the selective service act are sup posed to be draining the labor market, there still remain 150,000 men and women in Texas who are willing to grasp any reasonable job offered but who can find so few jobs in private industry.” Every man and woman at work on WPA projects and every person awaiting assignment to projects is ready today to take any decent job offered, Drought emphasized. Bulking large in the WPA case load are 127,000 unskilled workers for whom few jobs in defense in dustries are available. More than one-fourth of them are women who are the primary wage-earners for their family groups. A substantial number of the workers are above the age limit imposed by many private contractors and many have minor physical handicaps which bar them from some types of em ployment. WPA is tackling the problem with an expanded program of training and reemployment, Drought said, estimating that on the rolls there are 15,000 men qual ified for special training which will equip them for defense industry jobs. Already 1,600 such trainees are attending vocational classes and more than 900 have graduated into private employment. “But WPA can not do the job single-handed,” he continued. “Un less private employers extend some hope to this great mass of needy and willing workers, thousands of Texans are doomed to continued idleness and slow starvation. Every person on our rolls is listed with the Texas State Employment Service which has offices through out Texas. Any employer needs only to make his wishes known to this qualified public employment agency and our rolls will be open to him.” Certified workers immediately available for private employment are distribtued by WPA districts as follows: Marshall district, 16,- 245; Dallas district, 18,906; Hous ton district, 12,192; Fort Worth district, 12,757; Waco district, 11,- 909; Austin district, 8,837; San Antonio district, 11,533; Laredo district, 6,260; Amarillo district, 2,794; Lubbock district, 3,280; San Angelo district, 5,007; El Paso district, 1,401. —A & M CLUB— (Continued from page 1) BUDGET PLAN REPAIRS — TIRES, ETC. On EASY PAYMENTS BRYAN MOTOR COMPANY headed by W. T. McDonald, chair man; S. A. “Doc” Lipscomb; and W. R. McCullough was appointed. Any former student of the A. & M. College of Texas now residing in Brazos County is urged to be come a member of the new local or ganization by contacting H. L. Heaton, secretary-treasurer of the group and Registrar of the Col lege. Other officers of the club are P. L. Downs, Jr., president, and Martell Dansby, J. T. McDonald, and C. H. McDowell, vice-presi dents. THE BATTALION Aviation Cadet Takes Last Ride Before Advanced Course Winging high above the Texas plains, an Aviation Cadet at the “West Point of the Air” takes a last ride in his low wing training plane before moving on to an ad vanced flying school for the final ten weeks of the Air Corps stu dent pilot training course. Gradu ating from an elementary flying school ten weeks ago after master ing the rugged primary training airplane, this future officer pilot has since logged 70 hours aloft in the powerful plane he now flies and is ready for the single and multi-engined advanced train ers. Randolph Field’s eighth Avia tion Cadet Class for 1941, 315 strong, graduates form this famed basic flying school on August 16, and late in October these student pilots will be ready to take their places as flying officers of the Army Air Forces. Every five weeks finds new classes of American youths between the ages of 20 and 26 entering the 30-week course, destined to become military pilots. High school and college graduates are eligible for this training if they are unmar ried and have normal good health. Two years of college excuses the. applicant from the educational ex amination. To the $75 a month, plus uni forms and equipment, quarters and food, medical and dental care, has been added a $10,000 life insur ance policy in effect during train ing and, at gradaution, a uniform allowance of $150. As a young officer, the flyer receives $205 a month, plus quarters, or $245 in lieu of quarters. If he returns to civil life after his tour of ac tive duty, he is paid a bonus of $500 for each year which he served as a flying officer. Former Soldier Barbecues Meat In East Indian Style In the various seasons of the year Americans eat different things. For instance at Thanks giving and Christmas we generally eat turkey, at Easter we eat ham and on Independence Day we gen erally consume at least a little barbecued meat of one form or another. King Cotton Comes to Rescue In Silk Shortage College Station Women Atten tion! Maybe the Japanese boycott isn’t so bad after all. The Bureau of Home Economics of the Depart ment of Agriculture announces that more than 150 different cotton stockings designs now are avail able. This is a result of investi gation by the bureau at this Belts- ville, Maryland research center. Three years ago Congress ap propriated funds for the investiga tion of the use of cotton for wom en’s hosiery. According to Dora R. Barnes, specialist in clothing for the A. & M. College Extension Service, the designs vary from cotton web mesh for evening wear to plain knits in various weights for sports wear, and for around the house and gar den. Several are in production and more will be soon. They are produced on a modern full-fash ioned knitting machine and under go severe laboratory and “field”- tests for wearability, washability and appearance. Surveys made in 1940 showed that 89 percent of the 16,200 full- fashioned knitting machines in the United States are suitable for knitting cotton as well as silk, ■\yhile only 47 percent can handle nylon yarns. Last year, American women bought more than 43,000,- 000 dozen pairs of full-fashioned stockings. If these had been made from cotton, it is estimated that nearly 300,000 bales of long-staple fibre would have been required. —CUSTODIANS— (Continued from page 1) Public Schools; L. B. Abbey, busi ness manager of schools, Port Arthur; Capt. George Schauer, state department of public safety, Austin; V. M. Ehlers, director of division of sanitary engineering, •State Board of Health, Austin; Gus Herzik, first assistant to chief engineer (Sanitary Engineer Divi sion) State Board of Health, Aus tin; Watler Gutzeit, sanitary engi neer, Crane Company, San An tonio. This past week-end the oddest and most unique method of bar becuing meat occurred. It seems that the person in charge of the preparation of the meat was once in the forces of the English Army in India and got the idea from the natives there. 3000 pounds of meat was order ed from the packing house, most of which would have made a good cut of roast. This meat was in chunks weighing from 30 to 50 pounds, depending on the size of the animal from which it was cut. The meat was unpacked and thor oughly seasoned especially with pepper as the meat was to be given away and part of the ex pense was to come from the selling of cold drinks. The meat was then wrapped in thick manilla paper and the paper securely tied so that it would not come off. This was then wrapped in bur lap and this wrapping was also tied. These parcels which were be ginning to get rather bulky were then wet thoroughly with cold water and thrown on a bed of coals which had been placed in the bottom of a pit. Sand was im mediately thrown over the pit and the meat thoroughly covered so that no smoke, fire nor meat could be seen. Sixteen hours later the sand was removed, the meat dug out, and served to some six thousand an xious and hungry people. The meat was thoroughly done and even the most toothless of the multitude could easily consume his portion and fall in line for seconds. Much of our cake coloring, dyes, and cosmetic rouge comes from a scale insect, Coccus cacti, which se cretes Cochineal, the color pig ment. Professor of cardiovascularrenal diseases and professor of otorinol- aryngeology are among the titles of professors in U. S. medical schools. A fly, Criorhina kincaidi, has aped the bumble bee (for protective purposes) so thoroughly, that only close observation shows the dif ference. -WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1941 Jobs Everywhere! Government Needs Trained Engineers for Defense Work Business is booming! Evidence of this statement is found in the announcement that the United States Government through the medium of the Civil Service Com mission is preparing to hire more trained engineers. Vacancies now exist for the position of Junior In spector, Signal Corps Equipment, $2,000 a year; Engineers $3,800 a year; Associate Engineers, $3,200 a year; and Assistant Engineers, $2,600 a year. Applicants for the position of Inspector of Signal Corps Equip ment must have completed a full four-year course in Electrical or Radio Enginering at a practical experience in inspectional and/or testing work in connection with Signal Corps Equipment, Radio, Telephone, Telegraph, and power units, assemblies, sub-assemblies and component parts to determine compliance with specifications. Applicants for the positions of Engineer mentioned must have completed a full four-year course leading to a bachelor degree in engineering and in addition must have had five years, three years and two years respectively of pro fessional engineering experience. Persons who have not completed a full four-year course at a college or university of recognized stand ing may substitute experience year for year for the education which is lacking, which substitution must be in addition to the five years, Texas REA Co-ops Granted Loans To Extend Electricity Six Texas REA cooperatives re cently have been granted loans to extend electric services to rural families in the state. Loans were granted to the Kauf man County Electric Cooperative of Kaufman to build 113 miles of line serving 350 members in Kauf man, Van Zandt, Hunt and Hen derson counties; Hill County Elec tric Cooperatives of Itasca to build 54 miles of line serving 132 mem bers in Dallas, Ellis, Hill and Mc Lennan counties; Hunt-Collin Electric Cooperative of Greenville to build 47 miles of line serving 144 members in Hunt and Collin counties. Lyntegar Electric Coloperative of Tahoka to build 208 miles serv ing 534 members in Borden, Daw son, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Terry and Fort Bel knap Electric Cooperative of Olney to build 208 miles serving 389 members in Throckmorton, Young, Archer and Shackleford counties; $1,300,000 to the Brazos River Transmission Electric Cooperative of Fort Worth. In addition, the Wood County Electric Cooperative of Quitman has been alloted $2,000 for relend ing to individual farmers to finance installation of wiring and plumbing and purchases of electrical appli ances and equipment. A University of Michigan scien tist has unearthed evidence which indicates that the first barbecue was held 1,100 years ago. 3 years or 2 years experience men tioned. Persons who have had ex perience on irrigation projects are particularly desired at this time by the various departments of the Federal Government. Appointments to these positions are being made from day to day and immediate appointments will be made until the needs of the service are met. An excellent op portunity is afforded qualified persons to be of assistance to the Federal Government in connection with the National Defense Pro gram in connection with these posi tions. Qualified persons are urged to see the Secretary of the Board of U. S. Civil Service Examinei'S at the Post Office immediately and secure the necessary application blanks and forms. Detailed infor mation regarding these positions may also be secured from the Secretary at the Post Office. Qompm Correctly Air-Conditioned by Frigidaire Continuous Showing sched ule Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 150 Matinee — 200 Night TODAY & TOMORROW Double Feature “Intermezzo” With LESLIE HOWARD INGRID BERGMAN “King Of The Turf” With ADOLPH MENJOU Also Henry Bussed Orchestra FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Double Feature “Vernon And Irene Castle” With FRED ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS “Gaucho Serenade” With GENE AUTRY Also PORKY PIG — NEWS PREYUE SAT. NIGHT At Midnight SUNDAY, MONDAY Starring DON AMECHE, BETTY GRABLE, ROBERT CUM MINGS, CAROL LANDIS Also CARTOON - SHORT - NEWS On Saturday Night, Feature will start a few minutes after midnight —after the Juke Box Prom. SUMMER STUDENTS Avoid the school opening rush by completing your uniform requirements now. Check This List BOMBAY SLACKS KHAKI SHIRTS BLACK STA-TIE COLLAR ORNAMENTS TAN SOCKS HAT CORDS WEB BELTS THE EXCHANGE STORE