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THE BATTALION
Texas, Biggest State in Union, Still
Ranks Behind Others for Large Trees
Among the hundreds of “biggest
tree” measurements of all species
collected by the American Fores
try Association at Washington,
none originated in “So Big” Texas.
“But,” says C. W. Simmons, farm
er forester of the A. & M. col
lege Extension Service, “a Texan
might Tom Thumb his way for a
Paul Bunyon hall of fame with
the clear claims that Texas has
the biggest area of farm woods in
America.”
We have big hat trees, the most
saddle trees and a whole passel of
small lumber log trees of all kinds
on farms for small sawmills and
small industries, Simmons com
ments. In west Texas hogs eat
acorns off the trees and in other
parts of the state there is an abun
dance of nuisance trees a little
too tall for an upright goat to eat.
The American Forestry Asso
ciation’s listing awards the big
gest ash tree to New Jersey, the
basswood (lin) to Delaware, the
birch to Vermont, the buckeye and
a catalpa to Ohio. New Jersey has
the kind of red cedar Texas has;
Maryland our black cherry; Wyo
ming a cottonwood; Florida the
cypress; Connecticut, Iowa and
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The social season is just ahead.
Bring your date out before the dance
and enjoy superb food served in de
lightful surroundings among your
friends.
Attention military organizations,
hold your organization dinners here.
We can prepare any kind of a meal
that you wish prepared at prices you
can pay.
The dining room is open at all
times. Come out and dance at any
time.
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1 Mile West on Airport Road
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Dept, of Ag. Eco.—“Principles of Advertising”
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Fellows this is no hay—our com
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South Gate
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Dept, of Ag. Eco.—“Principles of Advertising”
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
“I can’t make it, Buck I should’ve got out BEFORE I ate
that lunch!”
Health Program of NYA Passes 2,000
Mark Since Start in September 1941
Washington, D. C.—More than
200,000 young people have been
given compelte health examinations
since the National Youth Adminis
tration started its health program
in September, 1941, it was announc
ed today by NYA Administrator
Aubrey Williams.
While the primary objective of
the health program of the Na
tional Youth Administration is to
determine the fitness of young
people to do various kinds of work,
many incidental benefits have ac
crued to youth as a result. Through
the utilization of community re
sources and through the coopera
tion of private medical practition
ers many young people have been
given the opportunity to correct
the health defects from which they
were suffering. For a high per
centage of the young people the
examination under the NYA pro
gram is the first they have re
ceived.
“The work that the National
Youth Administration has been do
ing in connection with the health
of young people is especially im
portant during this period of na
tional emergency,” Williams said.
In its efforts to improve the
health and build up the physical
fitness of young people employed
on its out-of-school work and de
fense training programs the Na
tional Youth Administration has
given particular attention to nu
trition, sanitation, and recreation.
The health program of the NYA
is carried on in cooperation with
state and local health depart
ments, the U. S. Public Health
Service, and numerous medical so
cieties and local practicing doctors
and dentists.
Of the total number of young
people examined under the NYA
program 108,630 were young men
and 97,791 were young women.
Alabama three kinds of our elms;
Maryland the black and red
(sweet) gums and hackberry;
hickories in Ohio and Wisconsin;
holly in Virginia; honey locust
in Delaware; magnolias in Florida
and North Carolina; maples in
Washington, Connecticut, New
York, Ohio and West Virginia; and
20 species of oak, mostly in east
ern states.
The largest oak species listed
is the Canon live oak in Califor
nia; bois d’arc (Osage Orange) in
Maryland; pecan in Louisiana; and
the persimmon in Maryland. The
largest of nine kinds of pines ie
the sugar pine in California; red
wood and sequoia in California;
sassafras in Virginia; sycamore in
Ohio; black walnut in Pennsyl
vania; willow in New Jersey.
The tree with the largest circum
ference is the sequoia, 101 feet,
6 inches, in California, and the
tree given the widest spread (168
feet) is a liveoak at Hahnville,
Louisiana. The wide-spreading
liveoak on the Lienda Plantation
in Waller County seems to be un
recorded on the banks of the Po
tomac. A California redwood with
an altitude of 364 feet is given the
palm for greatest height. The
world’s record for girth is given
to a cypress in Mexico.
“Probably the largest, oldest,
slowest, and fastest growing trees
we have had, or probably now
have in Texas, is the cypress,”
Simmons says. “Its wood also
has had more home and industrial
use than any other kind of tree in
America.”
University of Michigan will cele
brate the 100th anniversary of the
opening of its college of litera
ture, science and the arts October
16.
Slow Down-Draft
Boards Are Warned
Pursuant to a directive receiv
ed from National Headquarters,
General J. Watt Page, State Sel
ective Service Director, today cau
tioned all Texas local boards a-
gainst anticipating changes in the
classification policy in dependency
deferments and occupational de
ferments.
In his memorandum addressed to
all local boards, General Page
quoted a telegram just received
from General Lewis B. Hershey,
National Selective Service Director:
“Production of war materials is
vital to a successful prosecution of
the war. Many complaints are being
received that local boards have ta
ken it upon themselves to reclassi
fy many necessary workers. Local
boards should be cautioned at once
against anticipating changes in
classification policy in dependency
deferments and occupational de
ferments and that the vital neces
sity of continuing the uninterrupted
flow of the materials of war can
not be overemphasized.”
Dr. J. A. Pierce of Harvard re
ports that when & meteor of shoot
ing star passes through the atmos
phere many miles above the ground
it leaves behind it a trail of broken
atoms which may last for many
minutes.
BUY AT
LOUPOT’S
Attention Sophomores!
IT IS TIME TO ORDER THOSE
JUNIOR UNIFOMS FOR NEXT YEAR.
Uniforms Of
Distinction
— by —
Uniform Tailor Shop
MENDL & HORNAK
— North Gate —
Despite the War
Culture of Poland
Preserved by Wayne
Detroit, Mich.—(AGP)—Poland’s
wealth of folk traditions, with its
tales, songs, dances, superstitions,
and holiday customs, will be pre
served for coming generations de
spite the war and the effacements
of passing decades.
Through the efforts of the na
tionally known folklorist, Profes
sor Emelyn Gardner of Wayne
university’s English department, a
group of research workers in De
troit are recording on phonograph
ic disks and in written reports, the
life of old Poland as gleaned from
the older generation of Detroit’s
300,000 Polish descended citizens.
Clubs, choral societies, dancing
organizations and drama groups
interested in Polish culture have
helped in the task of disentangling
the material from newly acquired
American ideas and customs. The
-TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1942
Adolph Hitler Saved
By Penn U-Voice Only
Philadelphia, Pa. (AGP)—Phono
graphic records of speeches by Hit
ler .and other Nazi eaders during
the early part of the Nazi regime
have been presented to the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania.
The recordings, believed to be
the only ones now in existence,
were donated by Dr. Robert M. W.
Kempner, legal adviser to the
Prussian police under the Weimer
Republic. They were confiscated
by state police in raids on early
Nazi headquarters in Berlin.
Professors at the university plan
to use the records in teaching
European history and political
science.
material assembled is “folk” in
the strict sense of the word, most
of it never having been written
in any language but handed down
from generation to generation.
The Aggie’s
Ole Faithful
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FRIENDS!
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• Super Drinks
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Dept, of Ag. Eco.—“Principles of Advertising”
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