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Official Notices
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS—Mar. 3—A.
& M. Freshmen vs. Texas University
Freshmen, Basketball, 5:45 p. m.; Mar. 3
—a. & m. "
Basket-
vs. texas University,
ball game—8:30 p. m.; Mar. 5 and 6-—
Texas Dairy Products Association ; Mar. 6
—Field Artillery Ball—Sbisa Hall—9 :00
p. m. to 1:00.
Executive Offices
PRESIDENT’S OFFICE—The President’s
Office has received a book entitled, “Col
or, Class and Personality” from the Am.
Council on Education. Will the party or
dering this book please call for it.
PERSONNEL LEAFLETS—Printed pel
for the followin
Printed
ling
ese at Room 133,
Building, at yi
convenience: Burch, W. J. Jr.; Uamp,
T.; Garlitz, H. E.; Grobe, R. B.; Haltom,
G. W.; Slack, T. E.; Snow, J. H.; Wil
liams, 0. R., Jr.—Placement Bureau, As
sociation. of Former Students.
our earliest
Camp, L.
PERSONNEL PICTURES — Pictures
which accompany the personnel leaflets
are ready for the following seniors. Please
call for these at Room 133, Administration
Building, at your earliest convenience:
Evans, Travis; Garlitz, Homer E.; Grobe,
Roy B.; Haltom, G. W.: Nassauer, George
Jr.; O’Keefe, Thomas; Pettigrew, Jim M.;
Slack, T. E.; Snow, J. H.; Whall, C. W.;
Williams, 0. R.—Placement Bureau, Asso
ciation of Former Students.
Meetings
DAMES CLUB—The A. &
club will meet Wednesday night at 8:00
o’clock in the Y.M.C.A. parlor.
A.S.M.E.—There will be
A.S.M.E.
Me-
lecture room. All ME
meeting tonight at 8 o’clock in the M
chanical Engineering
students are invited to come. Howard E.
Degler of the University of Texas will
speak.
HANDICRAFT GROUP
Group of the College Women’s Social club
vill meet Wednesday morning at 10:30 at
The Handicraft
Social cljBj
meet Wednesday morn'
the home of Mrs. R. R. Lancaster, 207 E.
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PACER,
PACER SHORTS
HALFKOSE
Genuine English Rib
Socks . . . now beautiful
ly constructed in the U,
S. A. by Holeproof. You
will like the smart collec
tion of new colors for
spring.
Regulation Socks
We offer a pleasing as
sortment of regulation
socks in Crew Socks . . .
Pacer Shorts or Half
Hose ... in lisles, rayons
. . 6x3 ribs or heavy
ribbed crew socks.
25c 35c 50c
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Dexter, College Park. Basket weaving will
be
mei
is welcome.
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be taught and reed will be on hand. An;
ember of the College Women’s Social c
^ny
dub
FOODS GROUP—The Foods Group of
will meet Thursd:
e of Mrs. A. R.
113 Pershing street, in Oakv
irs will bring si
vorite low-cost recipes.
he Foods Group
the Newcomers club will meet Thursday at
:locl
!r, 113 Fershmg street, m Uakwo<
Members will bring samples of their fa-
FAYETTE COUNTY CLUB
Fayette
ounty A. & M. club will meet in Room 2
: the New Y Tuesday night at 8 o’clock.
AMERICAN CHEMISTRY SOCIETY—
The student affiliates of the American
Chemical society will meet at 8 o’clock
Thursda;
Lt.
meeting.
â– sday in the Chemistry lecture room.
"Col. Swearingen will speak at the
Announcements
RED CROSS SCHEDULE MARCH 2-6-
Tuesday A. M. Army.
Tuesday P. M. Army; Episcopal ladies.
Wednesday A. M. Extension Service ladiei
Wednesday P. M. Church of Christ.
Inesday F. M. Ghurc
Thursday A. M. Methodist Ladiei
Project House
Friday A. M. and P. M. Volunteers.
Thu:
Thu:
rsday P. M. Pr<
Chrii
adies.
ject House ladies.
The following students will report to
Mr. J. C. Hotard at 2 p. m. on Wednes
day, March 4, for the purpose of assisting
with the arranging of menus for the week
following:
Murray, F. B.; Nelson, E.; Overbeck,
E. M.; Schwinn, D. S.; Hill, M. W.; Goins,
W. C.; Duncan, D. L.; Pettit, B. E.; Hard
man, Echols, Domaschk, W. G.; Swain,
W. C.—D. W. Williams.
SAND FOR AIR RAIDS—Sand for the
irpose of extinguishing incendiary bombs
ill be distributed today by the coll
lay by the college
All College Station residents are urged to
ler on
porches before 9 a. m. for this sand
fice of Police and Air Raid Warden Com-
irg<
place .i metal container on their back
icrches before 9 a. m. for this sand.—Of-
Church Notices
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, College Sta
tion. Rev. R. L. Brown, pastor; Harvey
Hatcher, education and music director.
Sunday school, 10:45 a. m. All students
meet in new auditorium.
Morning worship 11:50 a. m. Pastor
will preach.
B. S. U. Council, 2:30 p.
Life Service Band, 3:30 p. m.
Training Union. 7 :30.
Evening Worship Sen
John Williams Hughi
ion, 7 :30.
hip Service, 8:30 p.
radio
John Williams Hughes, radio commen
tator, journalist, world traveler and writer
will speak on the subject: “It Shall Not
11 speak on the su
Perish.” Everyone is cordially invited to
attend these services.
Classified
FOR RENT—One furnished three-room
apartment. New. You will like it—S. V.
Perritte, 4-8794.
WILL “JACK” who
from 89 Leggett please return
as possible.
wed
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tux
soon
â– Leather cow-boy belt with silver
Dorm 4 or
door. Return Dorm 5, Room 110
LOST-
ops,
Don
Buford. Reward.
near west
to J. L.
WILL THE AGGIE who picked up a
black Sheaffer pen in Room 209 Academic
Wednesday afternoon please rgturn it to
Room 314, No. 1, for reward.
FOR RENT—Two-room furnished apart
ment, private bath, private entrance, 223
Dexter Drive, College Park. Vacant Friday,
March 6.
Chinese Consul
At Hillel Meeting
“China’s Part in the Battle of
ithe Far East,” was the subject on
which Ouang Tsin-Lon, Chinese
consul, and his wife spoke at an
open meeting of the A. & M. Hillel
.club Sunday night. Around 150
persons attended the meeting as
the Cosmopolitan club was invited
as special guests.
Tsin-Lon and his wife stated
that China’s main part in the war
at present was keeping a million
Japanese occupied so that they
could not do serious damage at
other points. They said that the
Americans had not underestimat
ed the Japs but had evaluated
them by American standards which
are not as unscrupulous as those
of the Japanese.
The Consul stated that in every
major reverse so far the Japanese
have resorted to the use of gas
and stated that they will continue
to do so in any major reverses
'which may occur.
SOPHOMORES!
Order Your Uniform
Now for Prompt
Delivery
Look for the Symbol
of Distinction
“Made by
Mendl & Hornak ,,
UNIFORM TAILOR SHOP
North Gate
THE BATTALION
1941’s Outstanding Actor
For his stellar performance in “Sergeant York” Gary Cooper
was last week awarded moviedom’s highest award, the gold
“Oscar” for. the year’s best performance. With Cooper in the
above picture is Joan Leslie who is also in the movie which open
at Guion Hall today and will run through Friday.
New Plan Before Texas Local Boards
To Re-Classify Men in I-B and IV-F
Local boards throughout Texas
have been directed to reopen and
consider anew the case of every
registrant who has heretofore been
classified in Class I-B or Class
IV-F predicated on deficiencies in
teeth ox eyesight, General J. Watt
Page, State Selective Service Di
rector, announced today.
Army physical requirements,
General Page pointed out, have
heretofore specified that regis
trants must have an adequate num
ber of serviceable natural teeth
(three pairs of biting and three
pairs of chewing teeth opposite to
each other when chewing) and
must be able to read test cards at
20 feet without glasses which a
normal person can read at 100 feet
without glasses, provided the same
matter can be read by the regis
trant at 40 feet with the use of
glasses. Registrants who could not
meet these requirements have been
placed in Class I-B or Class IV-F
according to the degree of defi
ciency.
The Army has now provided for
a liberalization of dental and vis
ual requirements for acceptance of
registrants for general military
service, General Page said, and the
revised physical standards provide:
1. That registrants who have no
disqualifying physical defects ex-
Slight Losses
Suffered in 1941
In Texas Woodland
An all-time low—35,808 acres—
was the record for Texas farm
woodland burned in 1941. This rep
resented the loss of 0.008 percent
of the farm woodland in 58 coun
ties reporting, compared to about
0.009 percent in 1940, says C. W.
Simmons, farm forester of the A.
& M. college Extension Service.
The Texas Forest Service likewise
reported the acreage burned in
1941 was the lowest in its history
of protection and, incidentally, was
the lowest in the country.
In a survey, Simmons found an
increase of 80 farm sawmills in
Texas over the number in 1940, or
from 318 to 398. Only about 15
operating farm mills were report
ed seven years ago. The cut in 1941
averaged about 70,000 board feet
per mill, which is about the same
for several years preceding. Farm
mills produce only one to three
percent of the total lumber cut in
the state.
The Humble representatives will
be Messrs.^ohn Sylvester and Jim
Casey and arrangements for their
interviews will be handled by the
Placement Office of the Associa
tion of Former Students. The Hum
ble Company is one of the largest
employers of A. & M. men and
makes an annual visit to the cam
pus for this purpose.
—SWIMMERS—
(Continued from Page 3)
The breast stroke brings togeth
er Aggie Bob Cowling and Dal-
lasite Phil Montgomery. Cowling
has been undefeated this year and
Montgomery suffered his only de
feat at the hands of Cowling.
Other highlights of the meet will
be the medley relays and diving.
cept a lack of the required num
ber of teeth, when in the opinion
of the examining physician they
are well nourished, of good mus
cle, are free of gross dental in
fections and have sufficient teeth
(whether natural ox artificial) to
subsist on the Army ration, will be
accepted for general military ser
vice in all branches.
2. That registrants whose visual
acuity is below 20/100 but not be
low 20/200 in each eye without
glasses if correctible to 20/40 in
each eye, will be accepted for gen
eral military service in all non-
combatant branches. The actual
possession of suitable glasses by
an individual is not required for
his acceptance under these stand
ards.
General Page stated that all
Class I-B and Class IV-F regis
trants who are found to be eligible
for military service under the lib
eralized dental and visual require
ments of the armed forces, unless
upon reconsideration of their clas
sification they are deferred for
other reasons, will be placed in
Class I-A and sent to Army Ex
amining Boards fox final determin
ation as to their acceptability. He
said:
“These new standards will make
available for service in our armed
forces many thousands of men who
have already been given deferred
classifications, as well as a large
ratio of the new draftees who
would have failed to qualify under
the old Army physical require
ments.
—HORSESHOW—
(Continued From Page 1)
at the north end of the drill field.
The biggest jumps will be four
feet four inches high and five feet
across. Six different types of ob
stacles have been designed for the
three jumping classes.
Cadet officers of the two regi
ments will compete in the Officer’s
Charger class. The charger com
petition includes showing at the
walk, trot and gallop, performing
the manual of the saber mounted
and taking the mounts over des
ignated obstacle jumps.
In addition to the above events
there have also been scheduled
classes for freshman and sopho
more horsemanship, tug o’ war and
a remount class.
—CAMOUFLAGE—
(Continued From Page 1)
“Camouflage in Nature,” “Fun
damental Principals of Camou
flage Design,” “Countershading”
“Physical Factors of Vision,”
“Psychological Process”, and a
batle between camouflaged ground
gun crews and camouflaged air
craft, in model form.
-SHORT COURSEk-
(Continued from Page 1)
Tomorrow has been designated
as “Bryan Women’s Club” show
ing, headed by Mrs. W. L. Porter,
president, and “College Station
Civilian Defense Short Course”
night.
The United States Navy band in
a reecnt performance at Clemsqn
college played “Tiger-Rah,” a pep
song composed by E. J. Freeman,
Clemson engineering professor.
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1942
Aggie Rings Began in Class Of
’94; Largest in the United States
By Tom Vannoy
Those class rings that every Ag
gie looks forward to getting when
he becomes a senior were started
back in 1894. The class of that
year was the first to use a ring.
The rings were designed by a
member of the class and were made
locally. The same basic design has
been in use ever since that time.
When the first rings were re
ceived from the manufacturers, one
of them was cut open and found to
be filled with lead. The entire
shipment was sent back and about
two years required to remake the
lot and deliver them to the stu
dents.
The eagle on the top, the star
on one side, and the crossed arms
one the other are as old as the
rings themselves. Until about ten
years ago, the eagle was faced the
other way and the letters A.M.C.
and the year were all that was on
the top.
Until a few years ago, the star
was not encircled by the wreaths
of oak and olive leaves. The oak
leaves stand for strength, and the
olive leaves represent peace. The
rope around the top of the ring
Civil Service
Exam Reviews To
Be Held This Week
To prepare students who plan
to take the civil service exam
ination for junior professional as
sistant that is to be held Saturday,
March 14, a number of lectures
covering the various tests will be
held in the next few nights.
At 8 o’clock tonight in Room
313, Agricultural Building, Collier
will conduct a review on Soil Sur
vey and at the same time in room
304, Agriculture Building, Potts
will review Crops.
Other reviews to follow are:
March 4, Dr. Humbert will re
view Genetics in the Genetics class
room at the A. & I. building.
March 5, Crops will be discussed
by Mr. Easley at 304 Ag. Building.
March 6, Christy will conduct a
general discussion at the Ag. En
gineering building.
March 11, Dr. Donahue will re
view Soil Fertility at Room 313
Ag. building and March 12, Dr.
Jones will give a general summa
tion at the 313 Ag. Building. All
the lectures will be held at 8 p. m.
on the nights of the days stated.
The Civil Service examination
for Junior Professional Assistants
will be held Saturday, March 14,
from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. in the
auditorium of the Agricultural En
gineering Building.
-INTRAMURALS—
(Continued from Page 3)
on the corurts and the Field boys
came out on the winning end of a
2-1 score.
Class B Horseshoes are getting
in the box for some teams. I Head
quarters Field Artillery triumphed
over D Coast by a 2-0 score. C
C.W.S. and E Field pitched a heat
ed game, but the Chem boys had
more ringers than the Artillery
men. The final score of this match
was C C.W.S., 2, E Field Artillery,
1.
has no special significance and
was added recently.
The background behind the star
is made up of the state and nation
al colors, with oak and olive leaves
and rays emanating from the star.
On the opposite side, the back
ground behind the crossed arms is
similar.
In early days, anyone who wish
ed to buy a ring could do so. In
1925, the sophomore class ordered
their rings at the beginning of
school. After that time, the idea
arose that there should be a re-
Degler to Address
ME Students Tonight
Howard E. Degler, head of the
mechanical engineering depart
ment of the University of Texas,
will speak at the meeting of the
A.S.M.E. tonight in the M.E. lec
ture room. His talk will cover so
ciety affairs and the significance
of professional societies. In addi
tion, he will discuss such topics of
current interest as the status of
student members who enter the
armed services.
Degler plans to visit the student
branches of various southwestern
schools as a member of the college
relations committee of the A. S.
M. E. His itinerary includes Rice,
L.S.U. and Tulane.
striction on the qualifications for
obtaining a ring, and the ring com
mittee came into existence in 1933.
At the present time, in order to
obtain a ring, a student must be a
classified senior and a regularly
enrolled student in the college.
In order to keep the tradition,
the design of the ring was copy
righted in 1935 and will not be
changed in the future. The present
contract is held by the Southern
Engraving Company of Houston
and the rings are made by Jostyns
in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Aggie senior rings are the larg
est school rings in the United
States, larger even than those of
West Point and Annapolis grad
uates.
The present ring committee is
made up of five administrative and
faculty officers and eight cadets.
E. E. McQuillen, secretary of the
Former Students Association, is
chairman of the committee. Other
faculty members are H. L. Heaton,
registrar, W. L. Penberthy, E. L.
Angell, and Ray Perryman.'
Dick Hervey and Tom Gillis are
the senior representatives on the
committee. J. B. Miller, Grover
Carothers, and S. C. Kaffer are
the junior members; and Robert
W. Phillips, Curtis L. Zahn, and
Vance Carrington, the sophomore
â–  representatives.
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TONIGHT
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Old College Road
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