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Page 4 THE BATTALION Official Notices Announcements RED CROSS SCHEDULE For March 23-27 Monday A.M.—Volunteers. P.M.—Faith Snuggs and Presbyterians, day Episcopal Ladies. Wednesday A.M.—Extension Service La- Tuesday A.M.—Army. P.M.—Army and Ladies, ay A.M.- dies. P.M.—Church of Christ, Baptist. Thursday A.M.—Methodist Ladies. P.M. —Project House Mothers, Church of Christ, Lutherans. Friday—Volunteers all day. BEGINNING March 24 the Mechanical Engineering Department at A. & M. Col lege, cooperating with the State Depart ment of Industrial Education, will offer a course in Welding for employed mechanics jn this area. The class will meet three hours per night, two nights per week, for a period of eight weeks, and the enrollment is lim ited to 14 men. There will be an enrollment fee of $2.00 and a material fee of $12.00. Anyone interested may apply for admis sion at the Mechanical Engineering De partment at A. & M. College.—H. P. Rigsby, Instructor, Mechanical Engineer ing Department. RELAX AND LET YOURSELF GO IN 'T'&tufi/JeumW See the Fine Assortments of Pleat Slacks and Sport Shirts at our College Store Shift into your sports routine . . . carefree . . . casual . . . easy-going . . . like Varsity- Town’s Pleat Slacks were meant for you to do. There’s a pleasing assortment. $4.95 to $9.95 Manhattan and Airman Sport Shirts were designed for com fort and good-looks. Stop in and see them . . . Smart Knits . . . Rayons . . . Broadcloths and Novelty Weaves $1 to $4 WALDROP & CO. “Two Convenient Stores” College Station Bryan GRADUATE ASSISTANT APPLICA TIONS—-Students who desire appointment as graduate assistants for the period Sep tember 1, 1942, to May 31, 1943, should file applications with the undersigned without delay. Those who have completed the require ments for the Bachelor’s degree by the end of the next semester, September 19, will be eligible. There will be one or more vacancies in most of the departments of each of the four schools. Only those who have a reasonable pros- Jradua pply — Dean, The Graduate School. aave a reasonable p pect of remaining in Graduate School for a full semester should ap: ■T. D. Brooks, NOTICE TO PATRONS OF THE A. & M. CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL We are now taking the school census for the school year 1942-43 and would like for all patrons who have not sent a census blank to the school to please call the Su perintendent’s office or get in contact with one of the teachers of the school so we can see that you get a census blank. We especially urge all parents who have no children in school but whose child will become six years old before September 1st, 1942, to report at the Superintendent’s office so the child might be placed on the census roll for the next year. Some stu dents have graduated and are in college but will still be under 18 years of age on September 1, 1942. These people are eligi ble for the census roll and each member of the census roll means $22.50 for our school finances. We will appreciate very much any as sistance you can render in helping us have a 100% roll for the year 1942-43. Classified LOST during A. & M.-Oklahoma base ball game—set of keys on keyring. Fish Kasten, 1-14 Hart. LOST—Ladies brown glove between Legett and Y.M.C.A. If found pie in at “Y” desk. ?ett and Y.M.C.A. If found please turn WANTED—Good piano accompanist, two hours weekly. Box 1723 College Station or call Y.M.C.A. Room 14. LOST—Between post office and Mitch- Schaeffer Rush engraved on side. Pi ! Mitchell, or phone 4-4184. Re- ell Hall a Schae: name Dick irn d. POE ffer fountain pen with raved on side. Please return to 78 wan SENIORS—A large oil company is in- enezuela who are organ i- irge terested in any nationals of Venezuela who will graduate this year and who graduate tins year .hot directly connected with some orgi zation. They are interested in students graduating from any department—engi neering or otherwise. Anyone interested should contact the Placement Bureau, Room 133, Administration building.— ment Bureau, Association of Former Placement 'Students. FOR RENT—2-room bath and entrance. Ui 4-7064. apartment. Private tilities paid. Phone FOR SALE—14 H.P. General Electric motor. Phone 4-7064. FOR RENT—An unfurnished four-room apartment. Hardwood floors. Practically new. Price right. Call S. V. Perritte, 4-8794. —DISTRACTIONS— (Continued from Page B) “NORTHWEST MOUNTED PO LICE” at Guion Hall today. Gary Cooper is the star of the picture as a Texas Ranger in Canada to capture an escaped prisoner and return with him to Texas. Paul ette Goddard is a halfbreed girl who captures the love of a mem ber of the Northwest Mounted Po lice and brings disgrace to him. Madeline Carroll is the nurse who carries on through the heat of pitched battle to care for the sick and wounded men striving to protect their homes from the re bellious Indians. The picture is filmed in techni color that brings out the colorful highlights of the scenery and the costumes to a marked degree. And you will enjoy the picturesque Scotsman Tod McDuff as played by Lynne Overman. —KYLE FIELD— (Continued from Page 3) case, is slightly off color . . . Well, it’s a possibility that they’ll finally connect with that ole ap ple .. . Bill Black has shown much improvement in his hitting but can stand a bit more ... his fielding couldn’t be any better. JOSKE’S MILITARY DEPARTMENT has your uniform in stock for you BLOUSES - - - - $35.00 Caps Slacks — Belts Insignia We also will tailor your blouse to your individual measure Write for Measurement Blank and Price List JOSKE’S MILITARY DEPARTMENT Leon B. Weiss, Manager Booker Graduates From Basic Flying At Goodfellow Field Aviation Cadet John Olin Book er, Texas A. & M., ’41, is to grad uate from this Army Air Corps basic flying school this week to enter the last phase of his flight training before he is commissioned as a flying second lieutenant. From Goodfellow Field, where they “Say It With Flyers,” he will be sent to an advanced flying school for special training in pur suit, bombardment, or observation flying. After he receives his wings and commission, he will be assign ed to a fighting unit or will be come an instructor. While at Goodfellow Field, which is typical of the Air Corps’ newest war-time training centers, Cadet Booker received his first in struction in aerobatics, night, for mation, and instrument flying. He was a member of the A. S. C. E. —SURVEY— (Continued From Page 1) was brought by the student from some high school or elsewhere, (70 percent type and 6.5 percent can take shorthand.) Practically no students at A. & M. are totally self supported and 38.8 percent are totally depend ent for their support. Those stu dents who earn as much as 20 percent of their support make up 29.7 percent. Most students receive between $40 and $50 monthly allowance, this includes $30 for maintenance. The number of students who re ceive more than $60 a month was found to be negligible. “Bird-dogs” Dominate Reasons for the prevalence of “bird-dogs” are that 43 percent of the student body do not have dates down for week-ends. About 27 per cent have from one to three dates a year down here and only one percent have seven dates a year down here for special occasions. The percentage jumped slightly for nine dates a year to 2.6 per cent. Average ages by classes run 17 years nine months for freshmen, 18 years nine months for sopho mores, 20 years one month for juniors, 22 years three months for seniors and 22 years eight months for graduates. These figures were taken three months after school started and check the figures is sued by the registrar’s office stat ing that the average age of the incoming freshman is 17 years and six months. “Thumbs up” Every Two Weeks A study of the information gathered shows that the large ma jority of the students leave the campus from nine to 20 times per year or more often than every two weeks. A correlation was made be tween the students who leave on week-ends and their grade point ratio and there was absolutely no comparison. Many students who seldom leave had low 1 averages as well as some who leave as often as every other week. Also, it was noted that some of the students who leave more often had high averages. This indication led to the decision by the class that no correlation was possible between grade point ratio and week-ends that a student leaves per year. Calculations of the number of hours carried and the percentage of each shows that the largest single percentage is the eighteen hour group. Practically all the students take between sixteen and twenty hours per semester. C’s Are Average This survey shows that the larg est percentage of the students in terviewed have a grade of a low C. The chart also shows that over 25 percent of the students have a grade below C. The total of all these percentages show that only approximately 10 percent of the students have a grade of B or bet ter. Most students expect to get a salary upon graduation ranging from $100 to $200 a month with the possibility of advancement. A question was included on whether or not the student favor ed an expedition of American troops to either Europe or Asia. Since this survey was conducted before the outbreak of the war the information gathered can not be taken as representative. The re sults were 54.6 percent not in fav or of an expedition to Europe and 61 percent not in favor of an ex pedition to Asia. Little value can be placed on this question at the present time. As a curiosity a question was in cluded to see how many students find it necessary each year to use a pawn broker to obtain money. Yes, was the answer of 27.5 per cent with 42.2 percent of these be ing classified as juniors. Sopho mores and seniors came next on the list with freshmen following. Graduates used them very seldom. LISTEN TO WTAW :1150 KC: 11:25 a.m.—You Can’t Do Busi ness With Hitler (Office of Emergency Management) 11:40 a.m.—Interlude 11:50 a.m.—A Moment For Re flection (Bryan and College Station Pastors) 11:55 a.m.—The Town Crier and Battalion Newscast. 12:00 noon—Sign-Off Sunday’s Programs 8:30 a.m—Roan’s Chapel Singers 8:45 a.m.—Classical Music 9:30 a.m.—Sign-Off Paul Dean Discusses More Oil Production “Water Flooding as a Means of Increasing Oil Production in Tex as” was discussed by Paul Dean in a meeting of the Petroleum En gineering Club Thursday in the Petroleum Engineering Lecture Room. Water flooding has been used a long time as a means of increas ing oil production, although its ap plication to Texas oil production is relatively new. Dean and his asso ciates have pioneered in this work in Texas. Over Nine Days in Shows Nearly half the Aggies attend at least one picture show a week and one fourth attend as many as two picture shows a week. Con tained in a chart which is part of the survey a further breakdown of students who attend less than one show a week shows that these students will spend nine days and four hours in the show a year. Be lieve it or not. Aggie Baptists Visit SHSTC Group Youthful members of the Bap tist Church will go to Huntsville tonight at 7:30 for an exchange party with the youth of the Sam Houston State Teachers College Baptists. The last party attended by the A&M Baptists was at Mary Har din Baylor in Belton two weeks ago. These parties are held regu larly by neighboring Baptist young people in college and are rotated among the different schools. -SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1942 -PRELIMS FINISH- (Continued from Page 3) —PARENTS’ DAY— (Continued From Page 1) tion. Tom Gillis, Cadet Colonel, announced that any student who has religious duties or activities that require his presence during any of the official formations that day may obtain excuses from such formations. At noon Sunday parents will be fed in both mess halls. Special plans are being made to feed the large number expected on the cam pus that week-end. Sunday after noon the program will include a competitive drill of R. V.’s and a band concert. Members of the arangement committee are: E. L. Angell, chair man, W. R. Horsely, Major A. J. Bennett, Lt. Joe Davis, Joe Skiles, G. B. Winstead, Fritz Hensel, Bob Russell, Don Burrus, Dick Hervey, Tom Gillis, Col. R. J. Dunn, J. C. Hotard, K. L. Warren and M. L. Cashion. RADIO REPAIRS THE STUDENT CO-OP NEATNESS always PAYS Look Your Best! SPECIALIZED BARBERS TO CUT YOUR HAIR AS DESIRED YMCA Barber Shop ‘Tn Old Y” Varsity Barber Shop ‘Tn New Y” are 300 yard medley relay, 220 yard free style, 440 yard free style, 50 yard free style, 100 yard free style, 100 yard breast stroke, 100 yard back stroke, 400 yard relay and diving. In the diving events Papich of Texas is heavily favored to annex first place without much competi tion from the other competitors. Bobby Taylor of A. & M. is ex pected to cop the 220 and 440 yard free style events. The breast stroke should be a battle between Cowling of A. & M. and Beeler of Texas. The 50 yard free style will prob ably be anybody’s race, with Mc Kee of A&M and Siedel of Texas aer scheduled to battle it out. Smith of Texas is favored to,win the backstroke, but should be pressed all the way by Captain Ernie Con way of the Aggies. Lieut. Dwight R. Sayles, Jr., has completed the Reserve Officers’ Training Course and received his commission in the U. S. Marine Corps at Quantico, Virginia. JEWELRY GIFTS for EASTER Fully jeweled watch in natural gold. 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