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Page 4 : THE BATTALION TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1942 The Juke Girl Ann Sheridan, shown above, is starred in the current attraction at &uion Hall as the “Juke Girl,” the story of a girl who spends her time in dance halls. State Fire Insurance Rate Reduction Saves Policy Holders Over 3 Millions ''Secret Agent of Japan” A scene from “Secret Agent of Japan” starring Lynn Bari and Preston Foster, that Plays Tuesday and Wednesday as half of the double bill at the Campus. OFFICIAL NOTICES Classified FLIERS—Have won a 10 hr. $75.00 course at Bryan airport. Will sell for $50.00. R. L. •Echnoz, Bldg. 6, Room 212. Naval Training School, College Station. LOST—Lifetime Sheaffer Fountain Pen with name, “J. Fuller Collier, Jr.,” in scribed on it. Please return to 301 Biz- zell for Reward. FOR RENT—One three room garage apartment furnished and bills paid. Call S. V. Perritte, Phone 4-8794. LOST—A thin yellow gold Elgin pocket watch. Reward. Call Mrs. Rogers, 4-7294. Announcements DALLAS' CLUB—There will be a meet ing of the Dallas A. & M. club tonight in the Y Chapel at 7:15 o’clock. Plans for the mid-term dance will be made and it is important that every one be present. Re freshments will be served. SPANISH CLUB—The Spanish club will meet in room, 124, Academic building, Wednesday at 7 o’clock. RIO GRANDE VALLEY CLUB—The Rio Grande Valley A. & M. club will meet in room 120, Academic building, at 7:00 o’clock tonight. Plans for a watermelon picnic will be made. HEART O’ TEXAS AND MOUNTAIN EERS CLUB—The first meeting of the Heart o’ Texas and Mountaineers club will be held tonight in Room 109 Aca demic building. New officers for the club will be elected. All boys from Menard, Mason, Junction, and surrounding coun ties are urged to be present. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MEETING— There will be a meeting of the A. & M. Christian Science organization in the YMCA parlor at 7 o’clock Wednesday .evening. Meetings RURAL SOCIOLOGY CLUB—Members of the Rural Sociology club are invited to attend a watermelon picnic Tuesday eve ning at 7:30. The picnic will be held in the area in front of the American Legion project house. A short business meeting will be held. Former Student Is Commanding Officer At Enid Sub-Depot Col. LeRoy Hudson is a full Co lonel now. The Commanding Of ficer of the sub-depot at Enid (Okla.) Army Flying School re tains his same duties as both a flying officer and administrative officer after his promotion from the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Colonel Hudson has behind him a long record of service in the Army Air Forces. Graduating from Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, in 1938, he next attended the Chanute Field, 111., Air Corps Technical School in 1931. Since then he has seen service as an en gineering officer and organization commander at a half a dozen Army flying fields in the southwest. Get Our Prices on Made-to-Measure UNIFORMS Stop in and see us before you order Made-to-Meas ure Uniforms. Our prices are right and every gar ment is made to your in dividual measure. • Regulation Blouses Junior Slacks Ice Cream Slacks Ice Cream Breeches Wool Shirts U. S. Army Cramerton- Cloth Shirts . . . Slacks and Breeches • You’ll like the smart tail oring and fine fabrics . .. every garment guaran teed to fit. fllaldropflff “Two Convenient Stores” College Station Bryan A sweeping, statewide reduction in fire insurance rates, announced today by Marvin Hall, State Fire Insurance Commissioner, will re sult in an estimated saving of $3,- 200,000 to Texas policy holders during the next 12 months. The new rates involved in today’s or der by the Board of Insurance Commissioners, will become ef fective on fire insurance policies written after August 1, 1942. The board reduction affects many classes of insured property, and in the case of dwellings amounts to as much as a 25 per cent saving in future insurance costs. * A few classes of property will receive increases in rates due to unusually heavy losses experienced in these classes during the past few years, Hall said. “The revision of rates in today’s order,” Commissioner Hall added, “has resulted from an exhaustive study of fire losses ^experienced in these classes. The Board of Insur ance Commissioners is considering whether other reductions may be justified. In addition, the Board is giving serious consideration to the subject of broadening the co verage of insurance policies to give the policy holder added protection. “Recently the Board urged com panies to reduce their operating costs in order that this saving .al so might be passed on the public. Cooperation of both companies and agents to this end has been splen did. The agents, as a whole, are due particular credij; in the unsel fish attitude displayed in a willing ness to see savings possible passed on to the insurance buyers.” The greatest saving in any class will apply to dwellings. This bene fit, estimated to exceed $2,625,000 within the next 12 months, will reach more individual property owners than any other class. Pre miums on insured dwellings last year accounted for approximately 40 per cent of the fire insurance busihess written in Texas. Savings to insurance buyers in Texas as a result of today’s order, coupled with reductions during the past six years, reach an approxi mate total of $10,000,000, Hall said. “Insurance costs in Texas today are the lowest at Any time,” he continued. “The lower rates for insurance protection is the direct dividend to the policy holder for preventing fires. In 1937 we pro mised the people of Texas lower in surance rates if they would co operate in fire prevention prac tices. Our citizens have cooperated and thereby the insured losses in Texas have been reduced. With reduced fire losses it has been pos sible for the insurance costs to be lowered.” Hall stated that in some in stances the saving on fire insur ance premiums since the early part of 1936 will amount to 63 per cent. As an example, he said the annual cost of $5,000 fire insurance on a LISTEN TO WTAW 1150 KC 1 == Tuesday, August 4, 1942 11:25—Popular Music 11:30—Treasury Star Parade 11:45—Brazos Valley Farm and Home Program 11:50—Popular Music 11:55—The Town Crier Wednesday, August 5, 1942 11:25—Popular Music 11:30—Arms for Victory 11:45—Brazos Valley Farm and Home Program 11:50—Popular Music 11:55—The Town Crier —YMCA— (Continued From Page 1) by the start of the fall football and social season, Gay stated. Funds for the enormous re-dec orating program the YMCA has been doing were raised jointly by A. & M. Mothers clubs, and the Ex-Students association, while much of the actual remodeling on the YMCA building was under taken by the college itself. A & M Forestry Service Releases First Sound Movie Wood goes to war! “Forests of Freedom,” the first all-color 16mm sound motion pic ture to be produced by Texas A. & M. College forest service was released this week for particular use in East Texas but adaptable and of interest to other sections of the state where Texas timber is playing a part in the war effort. The film deals primarily with the many uses to which wood is being put. Scenes are included of timber operations. Actual forest fires pictured sweeping through timber stands are a highlight to the brief part showing ways to prevent destructive fires from starting. The whole film is given a military and patriotic atmosphere with views of A. & M. students on training and drill maneuvers. The picture is primarily intended for use in the two motorized mo tion picture units operated by the Texas Forest Service in the piney- woods belt and its aim is the pre vention of forest fires which are a hindrance to the production of wood material needed in the war. One copy will be kept at A. & M. for use in special showings. onestory, frame dwelling with shingle roof and tenant occupancy before June 15, 1936 was $37.50. Now the same amount of insurance on the same type dwelling will cost $13.88. This will vary slightly in Texas towns according to their re spective k,ey rates and fire record credits. In recounting the substantial in surance savings effected during re cent years, the Board recognizes that many factors have contribut ed to the. continued downward re vision in fire insurance rates. These include fire prevention prac tices; the cooperation of city of ficials with both the insurance de partment and local fire depart ments in providing more adequate protection against fires; action co operation of the firemen; helpful ness of insurance agents in ex tending aid to insurance buyers, and the cooperation of the insur ance companies. The good fire record credits ben- efitting 506 Texas towns and cities this year will mean a total sav ing over normal insurance costs in the amount estimated at over $2,- 773,000. In 1939 the Board of In surance Commissioners made the maximum 25 per cent good fire re cord credit applicable to all towns and cities with an annual volume of $20,000 or more in insurance premiums., “Our efforts on a constant fire prevention program are now pay ing substantial dividends,” Hall as serted. “Texas ranks foremost in the nation on fire prevention ed ucation. Texas firemen have done an excellent job as a whole in fighting fires and in the improve ment of fire fighting practices. Given an opportunity they have been able to materially reduce po tential losses after fires were dis covered. “Besides the property saved from fire destruction every year, the cost of production has steadily de creased. There is only one way in which we can preserve the savings record already attained, and that is to continue with a vigilant prac tice of fire prevention in every home and place of business.” Wood For Aircraft Construction Now Under Observation Studies of the possibilities of using native Texas woods for ply wood in aircraft construction have been initiated by A. & M. through two of its divisions, the Texas Forest Service and the Engineering Experiment Station. Work was started this week making three-ply sweetgum ply wood panels of varying thickness on the powerful hydraulic press in the forest products research lab oratory of the Texas Forest Serv ice, under the direction of E. W. Stark. Three Texas veneer com panies are cooperating on the study by furnishing the veneers, and strength tests of the completed panels will be made at the college by Prof. H. J. Hansen, timber specialist, of the Civil engineering department. The plywood is built up in al ternating layers, bonded together with a phenol formaldehyde resin, which is not affected by weather or moisture. In this way thin strips of wood can be built up into a sheet having strength qualities greater than an equal weight of aluminum, and with a number of other desirable qualities. At present many of the formulae used in the design of plywood parts are based on a number of assump tions. Besides developing the vari ous strength properties of sweet- gum it is planned to use the results of the strength tests conducted at A. & M. as a means of deriving! more accurate general formulae which can be applied to airplane design as well as other structures. Wood is being used in increasing amounts on American aircraft and recently the Army and Navy were reported to have contracted for wood training planes. Plans have also been prepared to construct huge transport planes of bonded plywoods. Some of Italy’s combat airplanes are known to have wood en wings and fuselage. Sweetgum has been approved re cently by Army officials for use as plywood in aircraft. It occurs in East Texas on rich bottomlands. Its reddish-brown heartwood is valued for furniture and paneling. It is also extensively used for baskets, crates and veneers. The forest service estimates that the volume of sweetgum in standing trees in East Texas will total about two billion board feet. Wartime Meal Course Offered TSCWites Practical wartime problems in nutrition are being considered by Dr. Ercel Eppright, head of the TSCW home economic department, and her group of workshop stu dents who are studying “Food for the Family” the next three weeks. Paint Shortage Will Be Noticed Before long, paints of many types are going to become scarce. Mrs. Bernice Claytor, specialist in home improvement for the A. and M. College Extension Service, says shortages will be felt especial ly in paints, varnishes, and en amels for interiors. The reason is, these require natural or synthetic resins. For some time synthetic resins have been ear-marked for exclusive war use, and lately the War Production Board has ordered a 50 per cent cut in the amount of natural resins manufactured for civilian purposes. Here are some of the specialist’s suggestions for choosing and us ing interior paints to’ the best ad vantage. Semi-gloss paint, which washes well and is not to harsh in appear ance, is suitable for kitchens and bathrooms. Flat paint gives a “soft” appearance and is best for large areas such as walls and ceil ings. It soils less quickly than gloss paint, but it will not stand up as well under washing. Calcimine is the cheapest wall paint available. Though it cannot be cleaned, it can be washed off entirely and a new coat applied. The specialist cautions: “Don’t use calcimine on smooth woodwork or on walls which have been covered with oil paint.” The coating even tually will chip off and make lat er re-painting far harder. Enamel should be used only, on very smooth surfaces, for it makes holes, chips, and scars more no ticeable. Homemakers who' want to avoid the trouble of sandpaper ing and planing uneven surfaces, should use a gloss or semi-gloss paint instead of enamel. Sa " l ! lleCart *? n /l’.,?? n $50.00 No chatter from you, Fm headin’ for LOU! 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