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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.
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LOST—Lifetime Sheaffer Fountain Pen
with name, “J. Fuller Collier, Jr.,” in
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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.
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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
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—YMCA—
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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.
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