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Official Notices
Executive Offices
FACULTY MEETING—The meeting of
al I
today
-F. C. Bolton, Dean.
the General Facult;
the
The meeting of
be held at 7:30
Lecture
will
Chemistry
Classified
LOST—Slide rule, name, “Rutherford
Loomis” printed on back. $2 reward.
LOST—Upper plate false teeth on East
Dexter Drive, College
Reward. Phone 4-7064.
Park, Tuesday night.
LOST—Tie chain at dance slab, with
initials J. L. H. in it. Reward for re
turn to 108 No. 16.
Meetings
Called meeting Brazos Union
Lodge No. 129, tonight at
7:30. There will be work in
the Master’s Degree. All mem
bers and visiting brethren are
cordially invited to be present.
R. M. SEARCY, W. M.
J. W. HALL, Secretary
COLLEGE CAMERA CLUB—There will
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ire room. A very
ting has been planned and slices
the lecture have been sent from Eastman
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Tuesday night.
will be a
Club in Room
7:00 o’clock
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ATTENTION CHESS PLAYERS and
men interested in chess! Come out to the
new Y tonight and meet all the other
chess players in this school at a special
meeting of the Chess Club. If you would
mg
like to play
the:
game of this mental re-
are always plenty of
luxation there are always plenty of op
ponents of your strength at the regular
Tuesday night meetings. To join'the Chess
Club, all you have to do is put your
name at the bottom of the ladder and work
your way, up by defeating the men above
you. There are no fees or dues, and chess
sets and chess boards are furnished.
Announcements
S.A.E. MEMBERS—All students who
plan to attend the State Meeting of the
Society of Automotive Engineers in Dal
las Wednesday night, August (and
wish to have excused absences) turn in
your name at the Aero. Office before
10:00 A. M. Tuesday, August 25.
third meeting
tion of the-'Am
TEXAS A. & M. SECTION AMERI
CAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY—The twenty-
of the Texas A. & M. Sec-
merican Chemical Society will
be held in the Chemistry lecture room at
7:30 p. m., Thursday, August 27, 1942.
Prof. F. F. Bishop will speak on the
subject of “Chemistry of powc
plosives.” All interested are
attend.
Dr. E. E. Longenecker, of the Univer
sity of Pittsburg, is' scheduled for Octo
ber, to speak on the subject, “The Forma
tion of Animal Fats.”
eak on
ers and ex-
invited to
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En
SPECIAL EXAMINATION-
to Room 21,
eport
Building, Saturday after]
5, 1942, at 1 PM, for th
J. T. L. McNew,
Civil Engineering.
Civil Engineering
noon, September
examination.—
Dei
Head, Department of
STUDENT EMPLOYEES—Renewals of
applications for student employment and
student concessions will be accepted at
this office from now until September 19,
1942. If you expect to continue on your
job or concession, please see thi
present
or concession, please see that
your renewal is completed on time. If
king now, but expect \
ing semester, please i
,1 so that we may keep
an accurate record of students available
are not wor
during the co:
you
work
ming semester, please com-
plete a renewal so that we may ke<
an accurate record of students available
for employment.—Wendell R. Horsley, Di
rector, Placement Office.
EMPLOYMENT—I have a call from
the Agricultural Marketing Administra
tion, U.S.D.A., for' some men trained in
marketing or agricultural economics and
who have passed the Junior Professional
Assistant’s civil service examination.
I also have a
Rockefeller
" hav
request from the Nelson
Rockefeller organization for some
who have had
rather
agricul
for some men
extensive practical
pract
dally
vegetables, and who can spei
fluently, to go into Central
America. These men will be expected to
direct practical agricultural operations.
Anyone interested in these positions
should call at my office or see Professor
J. W. Barger, Head of the Agricultural
Economics Department.—E. J. Kyle, Dean,
School of Agriculture.
—SURBURBAN—
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would be greatly improved if a
cadet could gaze from his room
and see a Mr. and a Mrs. cow
freely grazing over the campus .
. . . ” And another said: “It seems
that at the present' time it is al
together too easy to induce the
the authorities to place a cadet on
probation and confinement for two
Errol and Epping
Above is the creator, and be
low the creation, in the most
famous double impersonation
on the screen — Leon Earl
and his droll character of Lord
Epping. They are seen again
in “Mexican Spitfire at Sea,”
latest of RKO Radio’ series,
in which Lupe Velez, in the
title role, is co-starred with
Errol as her Uncle Matt. Plays
%
at the Campus Tuesday and
Wednesday as half of a double
bill.
or three months. There was a time
when a real offense (like shoot
ing down a wall of the Main build
ing) was required to obtain this
favor. At present, things are so
slack that for the mere possession
of a light globe uncoated with
shaving soap instead of the regu
lation, a mere freshman may re
ceived the signal honor of being
given 100 demerits, placed on pro
bation, confined, and deprived
of privileges for six months.” And
in 1916 the world was at war!
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—NAVY—
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THE BATTALION
Firemen Chiefly
Responsible For
Rate Reductions
“Texas firemen have established
a record of unparalled public ser
vice in their respective communi
ties,” Marvin Hall State Fire In
surance Commissioner, has assert
ed in recognition of the work by
fire fighting organizations of Tex
as.
“Fire is one of man’s most sav
age enemies,” he continued. “En
couraged by human carelessness
and indifference to its dangers,
fire has become our most destruc
tive force, whether in time of peace
or in time of war.
“Too few of us realize just how
much our safety from the fire de
mon has depended upon the work
of our home town firemen. They
render an unselfish service; one
that often means personal sacri
fice in many ways. Present con
ditions praise such devoted ser
vice for home protection to the rank
of an important patriotic service.
“Lower insurance costs to the
property owner have inevitably fol
lowed successful fire prevention.
Our firemen have been the lead
ers in teaching us the practice of
fire prevention—practices which
have reduced our fire insurance
costs.
“These firemen of ours have con
stantly improved their own train
ing, and sought to keep their equip
ment in the best possible condi
tion; they have extended full co
operation in fire prevention studies
in our schools; training in fire
drills; investigations; vigilant fire
prevention in the removal of haz
ards that jeapordized the safety of
our property; and have sought in
every manner possible to reduce
both fires and the cost of fire in
surance.
“There never has been a slacken
ing in the training and prepara
tion of our 1 firemen. If anything,
they have redoubled their efforts
to protect us against losses—fight
ing with their backs to the wall.
All of our fire fighting organiza
tions in Texas are to be commend
ed on the courage and ability of
their men.
“Whenever fire insurance costs
have been lowered, whether by good
fire record credits, lower key rates,
or lower rate schedules on various
classes of property, the firemen
are justly entitled to a good mea
sure of credit for such reductions.
“The importance of work done
by fire chiefs, fire marshals and
the firemen themselves cannot -he
under estimated. Then too, city of
ficials, who have accepted the re
sponsibility and recognized the ser
ious need for adequate protection,
are to be commended fully for their
part in supplying the fire depart
ments with adequate fire fighting
equipment.
“Texas today enjoys the lowest
insurance rates in history. Thanks
to the excellent work of firemen
in teaching us fire prevention and
reducing our fire losses. However,
we must not stop here. We are
faced with serious conditions on
the fire front. We must keep our
fire losses low, and make them
even lower if possible.
“Our fire departments are fac
ed with the problems of reduced
manpower. The war has drawn
many of our best firemen into the
armed: services, while others have
assumed duties in important war
production plants. The best we can
do will'be to extend our fullest co
operation to our fire departments
and the men who protect our
homes.”
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Identification Of
Poison Ivy Essential
To Welfare Outdoors
People who are finding health
ful recreation out-of-doors may do
themselves a good tdrn if they
learn to identify poision ivy.
Sadie Hatfield, specialist in land
scape gardening for the A. and M.
College Extension Service, says
this out-door enemy can be found
in much of the wooded area of
Texas, especially along streams.
She explains that poison ivy has
three rather shiny dark green
leaves in each cluster. Often tne
ivy grows on the trunk of a tree.
The plant is easier to identify in
the fall, for the leaves turn a bril
liant red. Late in the season some
■ of the ivy plants have white, cream
colored or light green berries.
To get rid of poison ivy, dig out
by the roots. If you are susceptible
to poison ivy and happen to touch it
or even go where it is growing,
wash the exposed skin immediately
and thoroughly with a strong kit
chen soap. Lather it on freely and
rinse thoroughly two or three
times, Miss Hatfield advises.
AMA To Expand
School Milk Plan
Thousands of Texans are fa
miliar with the community school
lunch program, and in time they
may become equally familiar with
the school milk program which is
being expanded by the Agricul
tural Marketing Administration.
Details of the plan recently were
explained to the home demonstra
tion staff of the Texas A. and M.
Extension Service by Grace I.
Neely, nutritionist for AMA’s
southern region. Formerly, Miss
Neely was an extension specialist.
Milk used is purchased from lo
cal farmers and dairymen, who re
ceive the price prevailing locally
for unprocessed milk which is sold
for fluid consumption. The USDA
Agricultural Marketing Adminis
tration pays the farmer’s price
for the milk to local schools, which
in turn pays the dairymen.
Schools participating in the pro
gram make' arrangements with
dairies for supplying, processing,
and delivering the milk, and pro
vide for serving milk to the chil
dren. In addition, schools must ar
range for payment to the processor-
of the difference between the
price of unprocessed milk paid by
AMA and the cost of processed
milk delivered to the school. Co
sponsors, such as Parent-Teacher
Associations, may bear this ex
pense.
All children in schools taking
part in the new school milk pro
gram will be eligible to receive a
half pint of milk each day. The
school may charge up to one cent
a half pint to defray the school’s
cost of the program. That’s why
the project often is called “the
penny milk program.”
Seed Treatment Is
Safeguard Against
Smut in Grains
Seed treatment is a safeguard
against the ravages of smut in
winter grain crops, according to
E. A. Miller, agronomist for the
Texas A. and M. College Exten
sion Service. Much progress has
been made in controlling stinking
smut, one type of the disease, by
chemical treatment, but loose smut
which differs from the other, can
not be contributed this method be
cause the fungus is carried inside
the seed.
Spores of loose smut are distri
buted about the time healthy
wheat is in blhom, and these lod
ging in the flowers germinate and
grow into the young kernels. In
fected kernels when mature can
not be distinguished from healthy
ones, but when these are planted
the smut fungus threads grow
up with the stalk and destroy the
heads.
The hot water treatment is an
effective control, hut requires a
vat or similar container where gas
ox steam is available to control
the temperature. One method is
to pre-soak the seed for four hours
in cold water and then warm it
by dipping in water of about 120
degrees F. Afterward it is soaked
for 10 minutes in water at 129 de
grees. It is imperative to have the
water at the right temperature.
Smut in barley and oats can be
controlled by treating the seed
with one half ounce a bushel of the
new improved ceresan.
A mixture of one pint of com
mercial formaldehyde with from 10
to 40 gallons of water at a tem
perature of 60 to 70 degrees also
may be used. Using a sprikling
Those under 28 years of age will,
if physically qualified, be given
the Reserve Midshipman’s Course.
Others will be trained for special
service.
While on active duty in enlisted
status, apprentice seamen, Class
V-ll, will receive the pay and al
lowances of their rating. Uniforms,
books and equipment will be pro
vided by the government.
Camera Club to Have
Eastman Slide Lecture
At MeetingTomorrow
The College Camera Club has
now reached its full stride. At the
next meeting, tomorrow in the
Physics Lecture Room at 7:15 o’
clock a lecture from the Eastman
Kodak Company on “The Essen
tials of Picture Making” will be
given. The lecture is accompanied
by a group of slides illustrating
the subject. At this meeting the
members will turn in the entries
in the first Print-of-the-Month Con
test sponsored by the club, Bill
Evans, first vice-president, an
nounced Monday.
Be Used for Fall
Potato Planting
Soil mixed thoroughly with rot
ted manure is the first step in
preparing for a fall crop of pota
toes, says J. F. Rosborough, hor
ticulturist for the Texas A. and
M. College Extension Service. For
sandy soil, about three pounds
per hundred row feet of 4-12-4
commercial fertilizer should be ad
ded.
Small potatoes from the spring
crop, which have been kept in a
cool place, may be used' as seed
for fall planting provided a rest
period of six weeks is allowed be
tween' harvesting and planting. As
the fall crop requires 75 to 80
days to mature planting should
be made early enough so that
the potatoes will be ready to har
vest before heavy frost.
Where it is not possible to ir
rigate, seed potatoes should not
he allowed to sprout before plant
ing. Sprouts may dry up for lack
of moisture and retard the crop.
“Dry” planting may be done in
August by thoroughly preparing
the soil and planting the seed
pieces four to five inches -deep
where there is a better chance for
soil moisture.
With facilities for irrigation,
sprouted seed may be planted to
hasten growth. Sprouting is ob
tained this way: Spread out the
seed potatoes in a shady place and
cover with pine straw, ohts or
wheat straw, or wet sacks. Keep
the covering wet until the pota
toes begin to sprout. This may re
quire several days. Then irrigate
the soil in the planting area suf
ficiently to keep the sprouted po
tatoes growing. Drop the seed 14
inches apart, three inches deep. If
the seed potatoes are smaller than
a 50 cent piece they should be
planted whole. Those larger size
should be cut into pieces about
half the size of a hen’s egg.
—KYLE FIELD—
(Continued from Page 3)
both of the events. . . Eight former
Texas Aggie football stars are re
ported as possible starters on
Wallace Wade’s West Army grid
team. . . A backfield quartet of
Kimbrough, Thomason, Conatser
and Pugh is expected to bear the
offensive brunt while a line which
includes Lenorad Dickey, Chip
Routt, Henry Hauser and Dog
can, it should he spread uniformly
over 50 bushels of seed while it
is being shoveled from one pile to
another. Then cover with a sheet
for at least four hours, or over
night. Sow at once or spread the
seed out to dry. One pinU of for
maldehyde mixed with one pint of
water sprayed over 50 bushels is
recommended only for oats. Cover
for four to eight hours then sow
immediately or thoroughly aerate.
Dawson. . . However Holt Rast,
Alabama’s All-American end, is
flying over from Chicago to join
Wade’s crew and there goes Daw
son’s job. . .Oh, well, he may kick
off. . . Little Barron Ellis, Rice’s
jack-rabbit back, will get a chance
to face the Aggies again but not
as a member of the Owl backfield.
He is now a member of the Corpus
Christ! Naval Air Station’s grid
team and Lt. \larty Karow has
big plans for the little mite. . .
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