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Official Notices
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LOST—Whoever picked up the garrison
,p on the Aggie corner in Bryan Fr
please return to L. H. Blunt—327 No.
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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
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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
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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
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GEORGE’S
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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
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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.
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