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They Traveled the Gay White Way
Above are shown George Raft and Pat O’Brien in a scene from
“Broadway” which plays Friday and Saturday at the Campus.
OFFICIAL
NOTICES
Classified
FOR RENT—One three-room furnished
apartment. S. V. Perritte. 4-8794.
FOR RENT—Furnished apartment, util
ities paid; % block up from Highway No.
6 on Sulphur Springs Road; also room
for 2 gentlemen. Phone 4-8634.
WILL THE AGGIE who borrowed the
bicycle in front of the Assembly Hall
Tuesday, July 7, please return it to the
Aeronautical building. No questions will
be asked. It is red, white with front car
rier basket, new saddle, and new black
handle grips.
FOR RENT—Three bedrooms, newly
finished, three blocks from College "Station
P. O. Will rent regularly or by the night.
Ideally located for week-end guests since
it is in walking distance to all Campus
activities. Phone 4-6764.
FOR RENT—Three apartments. Two
furnished three-room apartments, electric
refrigeration, private baths. One unfur
nished apartment, three airy bedrooms,
new and modern throughout; garage.
Phone 4-6764.
I, L. M. GALEWSKY, have officially
changed my surname to GALE, and will
henceforth be known as L. M. Gale.
LOST—An Elgin wrist watch, last Fri
day night, July 10th. Left on wash basin
in lavatory of basement of Y.M.C.A.
Please return for reward. Charles Graham,
H-2, Walton.
FOR RENT—Cool, southeast bedroom.
Private entrance. Located about blocks
from post office, south side of cut-off
road to Bryan. Phone 4-6474 before 6.
Mrs. James. Call at home after 5.
Meetings <
HORTICULTURE SOCIETY—There will
be an important meeting of the Horticul
tural society next Thursday night, July 16,
1942. Everyone majoring in horticulture
is urged to be present. This includes fresh
men and sophomores who plan to major
in horticulture. Plans for the summer
horticulture show which is to be held
Wednesday, July 22, 1942, are to be fin
ished.
A. S. A. E. MEETING—There will be
a meeting of the A. S. A. E. tonight at
7:00 in the Ag. Eng. lecture room. All
agricultural engineering majors are urged
to be present. A student program will be
presented.
A. S. C. E.—The A. S. C. E. will meet
tonight at 7 :00 in the C. E. lecture room.
Mr. George M. Garrett of Bryan will
speak on a topic which should be of in
terest to all Civil Engineering students.
The University of Kentucky is
one of only , eight schools in the
Southwest offering the. Ph. D, de-
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gree.
Fort Hill, former home of Thom
as Green Clemson, founder of
Clemson college, is located in the
center of the Clemson campus.
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‘Two Convenient Stores”
College and Bryan
Canners Should
Prepare Before
Applying for Sugar
Homemakers canning fruit this
year will save themselves time
and trouble if they do some ad
vance preparation before applying
to their local rationing board for
certificates.
“Be prepared to answer these
three questions when you go,” ad
vised Winifred Jones, specialist in
food preservation for the A. & M.
Extension Service: How many
quarts of fruit did you can last
year? How many quarts of fruit
do you plan to can this year? How
many quarts of last year’s fruit
do you still have on hand ? An
other word of advice is: “Keep a
record of the fruit you can with
your rationed sugar because your
rationing board will ask for it
when you apply for more sugar.”
Answering these questions will
be relatively simple for the thous
ands of rural homemakers who
have kept records and filled food
preservation budgets as recom
mended by county home demon
stration agents of the Extension
Service.
Rural homemakers may stretch
their sugar allowances by using
thinner syrups for canning fruits
and fruit juices and by using corn
syrup or honey as substitutes in
canning recipes, Miss Jones says.
Information on these methods can
be obtained from county home
demonstration agents. She warns
that saccharine, a coal tar product
with an extremely sweet taste,
cannot be used in canning because
it becomes bitter when heated.
Here is the specialist’s summary
of the rationing regulations as
they apply to sugar for canning:
“You will get one pound of sugar
for every four quarts of finished
fruit you are putting up, and you
may can as much fruit as? your
family needs. You may have an
additional pound of sugar for each
person in your family to make a
small supply of jams, jellies and
fruit butters.”
Food for Victory
Outlook Is Bright
Texas’ outlook for reaching its
Food for Freedom goals is bright
despite the labor shortage, the
battle against insects and dis
ease, and the scarcity of equip
ment, specialists of the Extension
Service reported last week. The
summary was given at a confer
ence for Director M. L. Wilson of
the USDA’s Federal Extension
Service, Washington, D. C., who
visited the state headquarters
here.
Milk production will exceed the
10 per cent increase asked, the
Director was told. Demand for
fluid milk from Army camps has
decreased the volume of cheese
plants, and plants making conden
sed and powdered milk. The state
is also meeting the required 12
per cent increase in egg produc
tion. Texas has 16 per cent of the
nation’s egg drying capacity and
can dry 50 percent of the eggs
produced in the state, poultry
husbandmen said.
Recently vegetable growers have
moved 70,000 carloads to eastern
markets. The horticulturist indi
cated that the current problem is
Cotton Yields Up,
Losses Low Should
Be Farmers Motto
It’s horse-sense to build up cot
ton yields this year and hold down
losses.
Low losses mean low premiums
but high losses mean high prem
ium rates under the Federal Crop
Insurance program.
“Higher the premiums soar, less
effective will become the program
which helps stabilize farm income,”
Donald L. Cothran, state crop in
surance supervisor, said in ex
plaining that loss experience each
year is used to determine prem
ium rates in future years.
He pointed out that cotton crop
insurance won’t make a farmer
profit on labor and investment
but that it served as an income
safeguard when conditions beyond
control of the grower deprived
him of a normal crop.
Labor costs and prices of fer
tilizer and insecticides are likely
to be higher this year, but lint is
bringing around $100 a bale, and
cottonseed, none too plentiful, is
selling at higher prices than in
past years. To capitalize on these
more profitable returns, Cothran
urges farmers to produce as near
ly a full crop as conditions per
mit.
While crop insurance contracts
protect growers against losses due
to unavoidable crop hazards, in
sured-farmers must follow good
farming practices and exercise
reasonable precautions to avoid
losses before indemnity payments
will be paid by FCIC.
“We buy Federal Crop Insurance
for protection, not for dividends,
and like fire insurance, it certainly
comes in handy when calamity
knocks on the door,” he explain
ed.
Farmers Urged To
nserve Cotton
Dusting Chemicals
In order to conserve the supply
of calcium arsenate for cotton
dusting, Cameron Siddall, entomol
ogist of the Extension Service,
suggests that farmers dust their
cotton only when infestation justi
fies and that they use no greater
poundage of poison dust than is
recommended. As a further help,
the nozzles of dusting machines
should be correctly adjusted and
not allowed to clog.
Reviewing the poison dust situa
tion, Siddall says that during the
1942 season a total of approxi
mately 50,000,000 pounds orf cal
cium arsenate will be available
for the cotton belt, or about 20,-
000,000 pounds less than is used
ordinarily for the control of cot
ton insects. The War Produ’ctiorn
Board ordered that amount manu
factured and delivered through
the customary channels (state dis
tributors and local dealers) on the
basis of percentages ranging from
30 per cent on May 1 to 100 per
cent on September 1. Accordingly,
he says, established distributors
and dealers in each cotton-growing
county should be able to obtain
their proportionate share of the
available supply.
getting enough canned tomatoes
needed for distribution under lend-
lease commitments. A 52 per cent
increase in this year’s pig crop
was forecast by the Extension
swine husbandman, who said the
number of pigs raised r per litter
has reached an all-time high. The
Texas pig population is 18 per
cent greater than ever before.
This year’s calf crop is far in
excess of the average, and cattle
sold for slaughter are consider
ably heavier than last season.
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YMCA and Varsity Barber Shop
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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 1942
Possession - Nine Points of the Law
“You Belong to Me” is the title of the prevue show at the Campus
Saturday night. Co-starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck,
shown above, the picture will continue through Sunday and
Monday.
Ten Tons of Sunken Gold Constitute
Loot in Wartime Treasure Hunt
Student Activities
Releases More
Campus Officials
The following is an extension of
the list of club officers that ap
peared in last Saturday’s Battal
ion. All such officers will be pub
lished as soon as the space is
available and the names are turned
in to the Student Activities office.
A. & M. Horticulture Society
President: Leo Bailey
Vice-Pres: Ben L. Ivey
Treasurer: T. J. McLeaish
Intramural Managers Club
President: John Mouser
Vice-Pres: Dave Meyer
Treasurer: Mathew C. Wilson
Kream and Kow Klub
President: John Roming
Vice-Pres: George Roberts
Treasurer: Joe F. Kelsey
Longview A. & M. Club
President: Fred Ashford Jr.
Vice-Pres: F. M. Bradshaw
Treasurer: H. B. Skidmore
Lutheran Students Association
President: Rex Colwick
Vice-Pres: Raymond Velinder
Treasurer: Raymond Eisenhauer
Pistol Team
Capt.: Russell Cook
Treasurer: Tobert G. Cox
Pre-Med Society
President: Fred Kolle
Vice-Pres: George Willeford
Treasurer: John E. Green
Puerto Rico A. & M. Club
President: Russell T. Cook
Vice-Pres: Henry Lassalle
Treasurer: Ruban R. Costas
Singing Cadets of Aggieland
President: T. H. Collins
Vice-Pres: M. D. Lyle
Bus. Mgr.: M. Bernay Martin
Publicity: Ed Kingery
Librarian: J. J. Hill
Junior A. V. M. A.
President: W. D. Dumert
Vice-Pres: Gerald Parker
Treasurer: C. B. Chastain
A. S. A. E.
President: W. T. Hall
Vice-Pres.: Y. E. McAdams, Jr.
Treasurer: L. H. Hodges
Agronomy Society
President: D. W. James
Vice-Pres.: D. D. Morrison
Treasurer: Jack H. Barton
American Institute of Chemical
Engineers
President: Jasper H. Barrett
Vice-Pres.: George M. Wunder-
lick
Treasurer: Paul W. Brandon
Institute of Aeronautical Sciences
President: Steve Kaffer
Vice-Pres.: Gene Lark
Treasurer: Gene Kipp
Secretary: Clifton Adcock
American Institute of
Mechanical Engineers
President: W. H. Doran
Treasurer: W. W. Walton
American Society of Civil
Engineers
President: J. C. Denny
Vice-Pres.: Joe Bauml
Treasurer: C. A. Riggs, Jr.
Secretary: Robert Haltham
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers
President: T. J. Bolling
Vice-Pres.: Martin Lantau
Treasurer: V. P. Kelly
Secretary: Robert Haltham
Biology Club
President: Harold Holdeman
Vice-Pres.: Harry Trodlier
Treasurer: Ed Maddox
Secretary: Jack Barnes
Entomology Club
President: S. K. Kirk
Vice-Pres.: W. B. Morehouse
Treasurer and Secre
tary: W. B. Morehouse
Fencing Team
President: R. Shaw
Treasurer: J. H. Blakelock
Secretary: D. Stillinger
Grayson County A. & M. Club
A vivid account of a wartime
treasure hunt in which ten tons
of gold bars valued at $10,000,000
was retrieved from the wreck of
the transpacific liner Niagara has
been received by the International
General Electric Company from
Nelson Jones, a representative in
Wellington, New Zealand.
Jones assembled underwater
lighting equipment which permit
ted the salvors to blast their way
accurately into the liner’s strong
box 428 feet below the surface.
He also took part in the operation
which set a new world record for
deep-sea salvage.
“The whole affair was very def
initely of the hush, hush variety,”
reported Jones, “but the job has
been successfully concluded and I
understand the gold is safely in
America.”
Plans for the undertaking were
made soon after the Niagara, en-
route from Auckland, N. Z., to
Vancouver, Canada, struck a Ger
man mine and sank near the Hens
and Chickens Islands off Wan-
garei Harbor on June 19, 1940. The
Commonwealth Bank signed a sal
vage contract with United Salv
age Properties, Ltd., of Melbourne.
An old light draft ship, the Clay
more, was reconditioned and an
observation bell, a steel sylinder
weighing 5,500 pounds and equip
ped with plate glass windows,
were obtained.. A long tedious
search with the latest echo sound
ing devices was required to find
the ship. In the course of this,
Diver John Johnson of Melbourne
descended 528 feet in the bell, a
record exceeded only by Dr. Wil
liam Beebe’s bathasphere.
The wreck was finally located in
heavily mined waters on Febru
ary 2, 1941, when Diver Johnson,
peering through the glass windows
of the bell late in the afternoon,
noticed first an oil drum, then a
boat davit and finally the liner
lying on her side. x
Salvage work began next day,
with Jones, general manager of
the National Electrical & Engi
neering Co., Ltd., of Wellington,
assisting the salvors in electrical
ly lighting the wreck area in front
of the diver’s bell. With the diver
inside directing the lowering of
explosives from the surface, the
salvors began to blast their way
into the ship. Men of the Royal
Australian Navy sometimes assist
ed.
More than 40 mines in all were
encountered and destroyed. One
blast sent a wounded shark to
the surface.
A hole 40 feet long and 20 feet
wide, large enough to admit the
bell and a grab, was made in the
ship and, step by step, the salvors
worked toward the bullion room.
A delicately placed explosive blew
away the hinges of the door with
out disturbing the contents.
There were cheers from the crew
of the Claymore as a grab lower
ed into the room was brough to
the surface on October 13, clutch
ing two boxes of gold worth $35,-
000. The work continued with mo
tion picture cameras recording
some of the operations.
The greatest single day for the
treasure hunters was last Armis
tice Day. The sea was calm. A div
er was over the side at 8 a. m.
and worekd accprding to his tele
phoned directionl", a grab brought
up boxes of gold singly, in twos
and in threes, every quarter of an
hour all day long. Five times the
jaws of the grab brough up four
boxes at one lift.
In all, 46 boxes of gold worth
more than $1,500,000 were brought
to the surface that day.
Prior to the removal of the Ni
agara’s gold, the deep sea salv
age record was held by the Ital
ians who in four years recovered
some $3,000,000 in gold from the
P. & O. liner Egypt which sank
off Brest in 396 feet of water after
a collision in 1922.
Only the White Star liner Laur-
entic, torpedoed off Ireland in 120
feet of water during the first
World War ,is believed to have
yielded greater treasure than_ the
Niagara to salvors. British Navy
divers retrieved $19,000,000 in gold
and silver from the Laurentic over
a seven-year period.
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Thursday, July 16
11:25 a.m.—Music
11:30 a.m.—Treasury Star Parade
11:45 a.m.—Brazos Valley Farm
and Home Program—Is the
Lady of the House In ? Mary
Hester Harrison
11:55 a.m.—The Town Crier
12:00 noon—Sign-Off
7 p.m.-7:30 p.m.—THE AGG'IE
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Friday, July 17
11:25 a.m.—Music
11:30 a.m.—You Can’t Do Busi
ness with Hitler (Office for
Emergency Management)
11:45 a.m.—Brazos Valley Farm
and Home Program
11:55 a.m.—The Town Crier
12:00 noon—Sign-Off
4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.—THE AG
GIE CLAMBAKE featuring
“The Cask of Amontillado”
a drama by Edgar Allen Poe
(adapted for radio by Ellis
Newman, Radio Speech
Class).
Good Care of Teeth
Prevents Fear Of
Dentist by Child
A child by the time he is two
and a half or three years of age
should become acquainted with the
atmosphere of a dental office and
the ministrations of a dentist is
the advice given by Doctor Geo.
W. Cox, State Health Officer. It
is of prime importance, according
to Doctor Cox, that children look
upon the family dentist as a
friendly guardian of their health.
In stressing the importance of
early dental care, Doctor Cox
quoted the following from a bul
letin of the American Dental As
sociation:
“Parents should teach the child
that the dentist is his friend. They
should not allow him to receive the
impression that a visit to the dent
ist means unpleasantness and pain.
Such impressions are usually cre
ated in a child’s mind before he
ever sees the dentist.
“Parents can prevent fear in the
child by taking him to the dentist
before the teeth are decayed. Thus,
the first visit will consist of an
examination only. Subsequent vis
its will consist of a simple clean
ing or, at the most, the painless
filling of small cavities. It is a
grave mistake to so neglect a
child’s teeth that his first visit to
the dentist must be associated
with pain.”
Doctor Cox said that the im
portance of good dental health
had been called to national atten
tion by recent selective service
examinations and added that a
great percentage of physical re
jections for military service could
have been avoided by dental care
in the first few years of life.
{Secretary: Ferry iML. UarKer
Vice-Pres.: Billy G. Earnheari
'Treasurer: Billy R. Brogdon
President: John T. Lynch
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Floating mines as well as bad
weather interrupted the work. One
mine became entangled in the wires
to the bell and was pulled to the
surface. Another bumped against
the Claymore without exploding.
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