The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 18, 1942, Image 4

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 18, 1942, Image 4

Newspaper Page TextPage 4- -THE BATTALION- -TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1942 Official Notices Classified LOST—Whoever picked up the garrison ,p on the Aggie corner in Bryan Fr please return to L. H. Blunt—327 No. ca] please ri Reward. rya -327 gar: n Friday . 17. Near College. Call 4_705 rge 4. er. Toi LOST—1 brown Ronson cigarette light- . Initials C. R. Reward for return to >m Rogers, 65 Puryear. FOR SALE—1 pair of Junior slacks for sale at a bargain, ery good condition. See John Sparger, 46 Goodwin. LOST—Black hand bag with initials R.E.H., on Aggie corner in Houston. Jun ior cap was attached to bag. Reward. Pete Slaghter (3 H.Q. F.A.), 412 No. 15. LOST—A urday night between Th air of Ray-ban glasses Sat- between Ed’s and Dorm. 5. :ese glasses are ground to my prescrip- n and will be very harmful to anyone using. I need them as my eyes require that I use them daily. Reward. Darrell E. Grif fin, c/o Arch. Dept. tion and will be very harmful to anyoi using. I need them as my eyes require th: TERRAPINS WANTED—Need 500 in a hurry to be used in a turtle race. Will pay 5# apiece. Campus Theatre, College Station. Commandant’s Office CIRCULAR NO. 26: The Traffic Committee of the Collei ege rth Announcements DISTINGUISHED STUDENTS — Cita tions from Dr. Walton for those students who were distinguished for the second Se mester of Session 1941-42 are now avail- names were on the Student List at that should call by the Registrar’s Office for their citation.—R. G. Perryman, As sistant Registrar. ’ To Engineering Department Heads and Professors: Ttye Library has received as gifts from departments on the campus vols. 1, 5, and 8 of Schlomann’s “Illus trated technical dictionaries in six lan. guages ...” We would be pleased to re ceive as transfers or gifts the other vol umes of this 17 vol. set.—(Mrs.) A. A. Barnard, Acquisitions Librarian. NOTICE TO ALL SENIORS—If you have not turned in your proofs or selected your picture for the Longhorn, please do so by Wednesday, August 19. If this is not done by this time, the picture will have to be selected for you.—H. O. Kunkel, As sociate Editor. Meetings ALL BOYS interested in forming a Robertson Couny A. & M. Club are asked to meet tonight at 7:00 o’clock in room 213, dorm 17. ing for students lowing dormitories: HART, BIZZELL, GOODWIN, FOS TER, LAW, PURYEAR, MITCHELL, LEGETT, and MILNER HALLS. II. In accordance with authority from Headquarters Eighth Service Com mand, and until further orders, Ca dets of A. & M. COLLEGE will not be required to wear the necktie while in the actual performance of normal duties on the campus. When the neck tie is not worn the collar of the shirt is i may be left open. 1. The necktie will be way the campus and in uniform. b. At all social events on the campus. c. At the evening retreat, supper formation, during supper and thereafter during the evening when outside of dormitories. d. During the presence of a dis tinguished person or persons vis iting on the campus. By order of Colonel WELTY: JOE E. DAVIS, Captain, Infantry, Assistant Commandant AUGUST CLEARANCE Take advantage of this splendid opportunity to save money on our na tionally known brands of men’s and boys’ wear. Men’s Suits Men’s Slack Suits Men’s Slacks Sport Shoes Straw Hats Kaynee Wash Suits Kaynee Shorts Boys’ Slack Suits Catalina Swim Suits and Trunks Boys’ Slacks Ladies Summer Bags . . . Gloves and Belts rGaldrop&(Q “Two Convenient Stores” College Station Bryan SPANISH CLUB—The Spanish club will meet at 7 o’clock Wednesday in room 124, Academic building. Uncle Sam’s Flying Army RIO GRANDE VALLEY CLUB—The Rio Grande Valley club will meet at 7 o’clock tonight on the lawn on the east side of the Academic building to make final plans for the watermelon picnic to be held tomorrow night. The meeting will be over by 7 :30. NEWCOMERS’ CLUB—The Newcomers’ club will meet Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock at K. Riggs, 104 and sewing. :et Wednesday afternoon at at the home of Mrs. John Angus, College Park. Bridge SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGI NEERS—There will be a meeting of the S'. A. E. in Room 109, M. E. Bldg., Tues day, August 18, 1942, at 7 p. m. for elec tion of officers.—W. I. Truettner. UNITED SCIENCE CLUB CONTEST— The annual contest of the United Science club of A. & M. will be held in the Cher istry lecture room at 7:00 Thursday nig] August 20. All members of the club are urged to attend this meeting. Prizes will be given to the best five scientific papers read in the contest. :ture room at 7:00 Thursday night 20. All members of the club are D. H. STUDENTS—There is a called meeting of the Kream and Kow Klub to night at 7:30 at the creamery. Purpose of the meeting is to choose dates and make plans for our social affair. If you are interested in this social please be at this meeting. DALLAS A. & M. CLUB—There will be a meeting of the Dallas A. & M. club ” chat . meeting Tuesday at 7 :00 o’clock in the "Y All Dallas freshm to attend this meet: pel. en are especially urged iting. —FOOTBALL— (Continued From Page 3) day. Harvard and Columbia Uni versities once banned the game from their respective schools be cause of injuries suffered by play- fers. The students at Harvard so resented their faculty’s action, that they staged a mock funeral to bury football. As strange as it seems, after Rugby originated the idea of run ning with the ball, the thought of passing it was forgotten. For hundreds of years no Qne thought of this very obvious means of advancing the ball, then one day, while on his summer vacation, the now immortal Knute Rockne gave rebirth to the idea. When Notre Dame went into the field that year, it had a new fascinating, different way to play football—but it also had a skeptical coach, and so Rockne’s pet, the forward pass, was about to be “glued to the bench” when a strong Army team batted their ears down and had the Irish 7-0 in the last quarter. Knute, playing quarterback, called for the forward pass play, and before the game was over, Notre Dame had run up a high schore over a stun ned and confused group of West •Pointers. The 1880’s saw football converted from a rough, brute force game, to a game of skill, strategy, and speed. The “scrimmage” rule was inaugurated at that time, requir ing that the ball be put into play TO GET THE BEST PRICES For Your Books and Supplies Get Our Prices First COLLEGE BOOR STORE Next to A. M. Waldrop’s «£«Hi HOW MUCH MAIL DID YOU GET? That’s an important question —and, so is the question of Refreshment. Find the answer to both*. . . GEORGE’S ‘New Y” Non-Combatant Air Training Offered Here in September Army Air Force Pilot Train ing i will be available this fall here to men who are not able to meet rigid requirements for combat pilot training. Under a plan recently inaugurated by the Civillian Pilot Training Service of the Civil Aer onautics Administration in collab oration with the United States Army Service Training Command, it is now possible for men between the ages of 18 and 37 to qualify as Army Air Service Pilots for air cargo transport, ferry com mand, and flight instructors. This plan opens a field of pilot training which previously has been closed to those who have minor deficiencies which bar them from Army Pilot Training. The facilities here are being made available for training this group. There are no educational re quirements. Men between the ages of 18 and 27 must have received a grade between 65 and 80 in the Army Air Corps intelligence test or must have failed the Army Air Corps physical examination for combat pilot training. Men be tween 27 and 37 need not have taken any of the above examina tions. All candidates must be able to present a release from their local Selective Service board giv ing permission to enroll in this training and they must be willing to enlist in the United S)|ates Army Air Service Enlisted I&serve. The pilot training course con sists of several consecutive phases. The elementary phase is open to those who have held pilots’ license of private grade or higher and consists of 240 hours of ground school and about 40 bourse of flight training in light airplanes. The secondary course is open to those who have had private licenses and can pass a flight check. This also consists of 240 hours of ground school and 40 hours of flight in an advanced trainer. All graduates of the elementary course will go into the secondary course which immediately follows the elemen tary. All graduates of the second ary course will go into eight weeks of cross country which in turn is followed by a Link instrument course and a flight instructor’s course. Trainees who complete the flight instructors’ course will be sent to an army instructors course before being placed as flight in structor. Trainees are furnished board, from the same relative position after each “down”. And so, from a rough and tum ble, even deadly, method of train ing soldiers, we have inherited the thrilling, safe, and scientific game of football—an institution for the education of men and boys. —KYLE FIELD— (Continued from Page 3) Roy will serve as official statis tician for the Southwest Confer ence this year. . .Don’t be surprised if “Dub” Sibley, pepperpot Aggie center, is named first string center on some pre-season All-American teams due to be released soon. . . Southwest Conference will be more evenly matched this year than any in a long time according to no less an authority than Coach Homer Norton of the Aggies. . .Texas is the team to beat says Norton, but every team in the Conference is a darkhorse with the possible ex ception of Baylor, whose squad was riddled by the draft. . . Teams will be as fast and rugged as ever says Norton, but will lack the po lish that past outfits have had. . . room, laundry, medical attention, insurance, transportation from the college to the air port and all text books. The ground school is given in the class rooms and lab oratories of the Aeronoutical En gineering department and flight training is given at the 400 acre college airport. Applicants must be able to pass an intelligence test which will be given here approximately August 27. This is without charge. They must be able to pass the Civil Aer onautics Administration Comm<-r- cial Flight Physical Examination which requires 20/50 vision in each eye provided correction with glass will enable a vision of 20/20. Young men who are interested in this program should write immedi ately to Professor Howard W. Bar- low, Aeronautical Engineering De partment, to obtain further details of the program and to receive no tice of the exact date of the men tal examination. Fishing Industry Due to Expand On Account of War TeXas marine resources may be considerably expanded in war time, Gordon Gunter, Marine Bio logist of the Game, Fish and Oy ster Commission, said today in a report by the Committee on Tex as Marine Resources at A. & M. In an average year, Gunter points out, the Texas Coast pro duces seventeen and a half mil lion pounds of sea food- Shrimp fishery accounts for from twelve to fifteen million pounds. From three to four million pounds of three to four million pounds of fish and one million pounds of oy sters are taken. It is estimated by J. B. Arnold, director of the Coastal Division of the Gamfe, Fish and Oyster Commission, that about as many food fish are taken by sport fishermen as are taken commercially. Trash fish caught along with shrimp probably aggregate two million pounds. These fishes could be processed and sold for fertili zer. When shrimp are headed and pealed, 40 percent of their weight is lost. The heads dried and ground, are called shrimp bran, a potential source of fertilizer. Tt is estimated that a million pounds of this product is available from the Texas shrimp fishery plus 8 or 9 million more from the whole fishery. On the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast the mullet fishery is the most important in the region, be ing exceeded only by the shrimp and oyster catch. In that region the catch is from forty < to sixty million pounds a year. Despite the fact that the same species exist also on the Texas Coast in great abundance, they are not used here to any extent, and Texas’ produc tion has varied in recent years from 600 to 6600 pounds. The mullet is an excellent food, and the available supply is large, probably in the neighborhood of four million pounds. Another unexploited fishery on the Texas Coast is the makerel. Every Spring a large run of Span ish macherel comes up the west ern shores of the Gulf of Mexico, striking the Texas Coast first at Port Isabel in March and April. The Spanish macherel is an excel lent food, fish, and the present market could absorb several mil lion pounds. Proper macherel nets are large and expensive but Cali fornia fishermen formerly caught two million pounds of macherel, using pole and line or drift line. Twenty years ago the menhad en fishery produced a catch of four million pounds a year in Tex as. The menhaden is a fish for merly used by the Indians for fer- Additional Campus Groups File List Of Club Officials Club officers that have been turned in recently to the Student Activities office are as follows: TYLER CLUB President: A. Vernon Lockett Vice-Pres: Justin Pinkertin Treasurer: Edward McKelvey COLORADO COUNTY A. & M. CLUB President: R. E. Wink Sec.-Treas.: J. D. Austin SAN ANTONIO A. & M. CLUB President: John F. Gerrity Vice-pres: Lewis White Treasurer: George Tassos SAME President: Charles D. Agee Vice-Pres: Lee D. Housewright Second Vice-pres: Pat N. Owens Secretary:: Charles C. Mitchell Treasurer: Owen A. Moore tilizing hills of corn. When the demand for fish oil has increased sufficiently, the menhaden supply of the Texas Gulf Coast is ready for use. Another unappreciated and lit tle used industry on the Texas Coast is the crab industry. Ches apeake Bay produces 60 million pounds of crabmeat a year. A bio logist who studied the blue crab in the Cheasapeake area has said that general observations led him to believe that blue crabs are as abundant in Texas waters as in Cheasapeake Bay. The price for soupfin shark liv ers is $9 a pound. The development of the shark industry along the Texas Coast awaits the future. Along the Texas Gulf Coast cab- bagehead jelly fish become num erous at certain times. Destruction Of Forests Said To * Be Wanton Waste The Acting Chief of the U. S. Forest Service, Earle H. Clapp, in conference with Southern Region al Forester Joseph C. Kircher here today, expressed himself as appal led by the needlessly destructive cutting of forest lands being done under the guise of wartime exis- gencies. The purpose of the Atlan ta meetings was to discuss ways and means of meeting the unpre- cendented drain which war de mands have placed on the forest resources of the nation. The stren gthening of fire protection or ganizations in strategic military zones and a nation-wide drive for the reduction of man-caused for est fires during the present emer gency were other subjects under discussion. At the request of the War Pro duction Board, the Forest Service has assigned foresters throughout the country to survey war-time timber requirements, supplies, and manufacturing facilities. These foresters report increasing scar city of several much needed species of timber, and shortages in the sizes of trees used in making many urgently needed war products, such as ship timbers and stock for airplane venew. “No one is more aware of the importance of sup plying our present needs for tim ber than I”, says Clapp. “But this demand cannot be met by destruc tive cutting of small trees, trees, six and seven inches in diameter, leaving an entire area without enough young growth for the fu ture, delaying by 20 to 40 years an deven longer the production of another crop.” Of this unnecessarily destructive cutting, Mr. Clapp says: “It does not help the war efort, but in fact often retards it because it is a waste of rubber and manpower to try to get timber from under sized trees when more and higher quality forest products can be obtained at les cost from larger trees with less labor and less wear on tires and equipment. I am ap palled by reports from our field men as to the vast amount of this destructive cutting now going on throughout the country—destruc tion of the producing power of LISTEN TO WTAW 1150 KC Tuesday, August 18, 1942 11:25—Popular Music 11:30—Treasury Star Parade 11:45—The Brazos Valley Farm and Home Program , 11:55—The Town Crier 12:00—Sign Off Wednesday, August 19, 1942 11:25—Popular Music 11:30—Arms For Victory 11:45—Brazos Valley Farm and Home Program 11:55—The Town Crier 12:00—Sign Off forests entirely unnecessary in meeting the nation’s demand for war timber—although too many timber operators are trying to justify their action under the war emergency. I am appalled, too, by the seriousnes which will result from this practice in the post-war period.” In this connection, Mr. Clapp cites the jobs, payrolls,, ahd markets provided by new Southern forest industries in recent years and says that good cutting prac tices must be followed, if these forest lands are to remain in pro ductive condition to support addi tional industries, payrolls, and markets which will be badly need ed when the boys return from the battle front. Mr. Clapp states that full rec ognition should be given those private owners who are practic ing good forestry, but thinks that these are in the minority and that their interest is being jeopardized by those owners and operators who do not assume their responsibility to the public. In his opinion the time has come now for assurances that will stop private forest land practices which deplete and destroy forest resources. “After nearly a half century of study by the U. S. Forest Service”, Clapp says, “we feel that there are two and only two means which wil afford such assurances. One is public owner ship and management of more forest lands by communities, States, and the federal government. University of Michigan faculty members have undertaken 31 war research projects for the federal government. Hi Aggies!! This Advertisement and 10^ Good for One Kelleyburger and a large glass of Orange or Lemonade between 8 and 11 p. m. A. & M. GRILL North Gate Now Operated by Kelley Boys — Jim and A1 Before Y ou Hit The Highway Check Up and Be Sure of a Supply of Our Q AMOW Shirts Sox Handkerchiefs IRC T fci i THE EXCHANGE OTE An Aggie Institution

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