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r Page 4- -THE BATTALION- -THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1942 Official Notices Classified FIVE ROOM house, furnished, servant oom, one acre of ground, horse stable and corral. One mile from campus, third house west of Assembly of God church old College road. Phone 2-5483. on LOS't ONE ROUND-FACED Hamilton wrist watch. If found please notify owner at Dorm. 1, Room 319. Liberal reward. Meetings A. S. A. E.—There will be a meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers tonight at. 7 :15 in the Agricul- tui vei be iportant that all Ag. Engineers present as this is the last regular meeting before the Barnyard Frolic Sat- ingineers tonigl tural Engineering Lecture Roi •e ay, September and plans will be made. ing Lecture Room. It very important that all Ag. Engine at as ag before the Barnya urday, September 5. Final arrangements Called meeting Brazos Union Lodge 129 tonight at 7:30. There will be work in the E. A. Degree. All members and visiting brethren are cor dially invited to be present. R. M. SEARCY, W. M. are cob mt. J. W. HALL, Secretary Bicycle Repairs The STUDENT CO-OP A Genuine Calfskin BlliliFOliD vs taipfii Jiik. VWh MmjdIR This is just one of the many fine MEEKER- MADE Billfolds we have to show you. There’s plenty of leathers to choose from — calfskin . . . goatskin . . . Mor occo . . . ostrich . . . alligator . . . pigskin and seal. Finest quality and craftsmanship at moderate prices. $1.00 to $8.00 rOaldropfl(8 “Two Convenient Stores” College Station Bryan CLUB—The officers of the —ill be hostesses to all old jrs, and to those who plan to become members, Friday, September 4, at 3:00 p. m. at the home of Mrs. C. B. GARDEN Garden Club will be and new member! J p. Campbell in Oakwood. ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY MEETING ■There will be an important meetipg of the Architecture Society in the Arch itecture Library tonight at 7:30 o’clock. All members of the Architecture Depart ment are urged to be present. A. S. C. E.—The A. S. • C. E. will meet tonight at 7:00 in the C. E. lecture room. Dr. A. A. Jakkula will discuss the causes for the failure of the Tacoma, Washington, bridge. ABILENE CLUB—The Abilene A. & M. Club will meet tonight in room 119 Academic building after yell practice. Executive Offices ATTENTION AGRICULTURAL SEN- IORS : —All agricultural seniors graduating at the close of the present semester, please call at my office and fill out personnel blanks for our permanent records.—E. J. Kyle, Dean of Agriculture. Announcements WILL THE DEPARTMENT borrowing a small green typewriter table from the office of The Battalion Tuesday please return same to Room 5, basement of the Administration building. NOTICE To the owners of following cars de scribed : 1933 Black Chevrolet Sedan ; State License No. 163-656, College Tag No. 463; car has three flat tires, one wheel and tire gone, parked in old laundry parking lot. 1933 Chevrolet Roadster Red Color; State License 737-585, 1943 Lie., College tag No. 184; No tires on car. Dor No. 11 parking lot. 1930 Studebaker Sedan Color White; State license No. 770-256, 1941 . license; one tire and wheel gone. Dorm No. 11 parking lot. These cars must be moved off of cam- they are not moved one ublication, they will be i off of campus. By orders of Commandant’s Office. New Sources of Power Found For Conserving War Power cai pus by owners. If they are not moved o week from this publication, they junked, and taken off of i NOTICE The Agige who left his trench coat in the green Dodge of Miss Ruby Mash- burn when he rode to Ennis can obtain it in room 219 of the Extension build ing. Initials in the coat are J. H. G. tpe For TIRE REPAIR and BATTERY SERVICE Come By AGGIE SERVICE STATION North Gate Sophomores— FOR FINE FOOD BRING YOUR DATE to the A. & M. GRILL Operated by Jim and A1 Kelly North Gate Sophomores . . . It’s Not Too Late to Get a TAILOR MADE UNIFORM Have It Made Here in College Station Where You Can Watch It Being Made . Choice of Yarn or Piece Dye Material 100% Wool . Uniform Tailor Shop MENDL & HORNAK North Gate Consumption of unprecedented quantities of power in war pro duction is placing new emphasis on methods of conserving energy. Long before the United States en tered the war, General Electric engineers developed two systems for utilizing potential power which would otherwise be wasted, and these systems are now pouring mil lions of kilowatt-hours back into war production. One such system is a method of recovering power, from the testing of airplane engines, and is in wide use in their manufacture. The first power-recovery testing system was developed by General Electric in collaboration with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft and sev eral million kilowatt-hours of power a month already are being recovered by this method. . Natural and processed gas is another important source of waste energy now being harnessed by General Electric engineers to pro vide additional motive power in industry. The gases drive specially designed turbines, some of which provide an output of several thousand horsepower. Authorities estimate that if the national pro duction of natural gas alone were to be harnessed in this manner, an annual power output of approx imately one and three quarters billion kilowatt-hours would re sult. Airplane Engine Power Recovery Enormous power economies al ready have been effected by the airplane engine recovery method. During the 12 hours usually re quired to test airplane engine re covery method. During the 12 hours usually required to test an airplane engine, great quantities of high octane gasoline are con sumed. The testing under the new method produces correspondingly large amounts of kilowatt-hours of power which, under ordinary testing methods, are entirely was* ed. One airplane engine factory in the middle west, for example, tests enough engines to produce kilowatt- hours numbering in the millions per month. This power is more than half the amount necessary to op erate the entire plant at maximum capacity. By the G-E method all of this recovered power is pumped into the plant’s power system, and so successful has the method prov ed that 163 installations have been made, 72 of them by General Elec tric. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Ford, Buick, and Chrysler are among the manufacturers of air plane engines using the units. General Electric experiments in salvaging power in airplane en gine testing go back to 1938, when Pratt & Whitney Aircraft request ed that company engines study the possibilities of power recovery. The moment an airplane engine is completed it is placed on a test- for several hours, not only as a ing stand and run at varying speeds test, but to break in the engine. Unlike an automobile engine, which can be broken in by slow driving, an airplane engine must be ready to run at full speed for the take off, which requires more power than actual flying. During the testing, airplane en gine manufacturers ordinarily con nected the engine to a special pro- 'peller, and the entire engine out put is dissipated in churning the air. The propeller serves merely as a “load”—that is, a resistive force which the engine must drive. During the first World War, when a 500-horsepower airplane engine was considered large, the amount of gasoline required in testing was comparatively small. The enormous quantities of high octane gasoline consumed by today’s engines over 2000 horsepower, however, caused Pratt and Whitney to call in Gen eral Electric to study the possibil ities of recovery. General Electric worked out a system whereby an alternating- current generator would replace the propeller as the “load” on the airplane engine. The power from the engine is stepped down to the delatively slow generator speed by a coupling device, with the result that a high percentage of the pow er is converted into electrical en ergy and pumped into the power system. So successful did the system prove to be that six of the testing Amits have been installed at Pratt & Whitney, all of them by G. E. Lines run from an airplane engine under test to dials and indicators within a booth, where an operator writes down various readings on the engine’s oil and gasoline con sumption, air intakes, atmospheric conditions, exhaust, and other rec ords of performance. Dials and Indicators are now being simpli fied so unskilled women workers will be able to serve as operators, freeing skilled men for more com plex testing. The booth inside which the op erator checks on the engines under test is sound-proofed, for the noise of an engine in a small room or- dinairly would break the eardrums of a person nearby. After a few hours of test the engine is stopped, taken completely apart, each of the parts examined, then reassembled for final test before installation in a plane. Recently, however, a more flex ible power recovery system elim- nating the coupling device has been developed. This system incorpor ates the characteristics of the coupling and the constant-speed generator in one variable-speed unit. As a result of the increased flexibility of this new test Unit, airplane engines of large "size and horsepower and spread over a much wider range of speeds may be tested. Numerous installations of this type have been sold and others are being planned. Power Recovery from Gas Gas power recovery systems have installed by General Electric with increasing frequency in re cent years. Several months ago company engineers designed and installed a 3500-horsepower tur bine for a California concern pro ducing 100-octane aviation gaso line. Here is how the method may operate in a petroleum refinery of this type: During one of the steps of avia tion gasoline manufacture, petro leum vapor passes through cataly tic reactors, which change the chemical composition of the va por. Incidental to this reaction, a deposit of carbon is left on the cat alyst. The carbon must be removed periodically, and this is accom plished by shutting off the flow of petroleum vapor and forcing air through the reactor by a blower. -During this stage the carbon is burned off and the heated air, as a result, then contains carbon diox ide. As this gas leaves the reactor, it enters and drives a gas turbine. The turbine, in turn, supplies motive power for the blower. The result is conversion into valuable power of what otherwise would be piped off as waste gas. Oil re fineries, however, are just one potential source of motive power derived from processed gas. Various types of plants using natural gas also now have gas tur bine installations, For example, manufacturers of carbon black obtain their product by extracting it from natural gas. The process requires gas at a compartively low pressure. A gas turbine may be used as a reducing valve to adapt the normally high pressure from the well to the process and at the same time obtain valuable energy. In 1939 General Electric install ed its first gas turbines, of 98 and 265 horsepower, respectively, and since then increasingly large tur bines have been supplied. While gas turbines and engine testing generators already . in stalled for power recovery are conserving sizeable amounts of energy needed by war industry, full application of such systems cannot be expected to be realized until after the war. Turbines and generators to provide power for the new war industries and the Arm yand Navy now get first call, in line with War Production Board policy of getting as much pro duction* as possible under way. During the post-war period, how ever, when facilities for refine ments in efficiency will be more plentiful, considerable development of power conservation technique is anticipated. be as many coaches to work with the squad as in ordinary years. Only Norton and James remain from last years varsity coaches, and Manning Smith has been pro moted from freshman coach to backfield coach to fill the gap left by Karow’s departure. In addition to hi§ backfield duties, Manning will do all the scouting for the Ag gies this year. So it is that this season might easily turn into a nightmare for Coach Norton, and the usual jovial smile is missing from the genial Aggie mentor’s countenance these days. For the problems facing the Aggies are manifold and tough. But they haven’t given up yet, far from it; they aren’t nicknamed the “Fightin’ Texas Aggies” for nothing. —DISTRACTIONS— (Continued From Page 2) are played by Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson and Griffith Jones. Climax of the story is the “Bri tannia” crossing the Atlantic—the first steamship of the now famous Cunard line to accomplish this feat. The Lowdown:—a history les son with a background of real ac tion. —TITLE SERIES— (Continued From Page 3) outfield positions. Following today’s game, a tilt will be played Friday and if ne cessary the deciding fray will be scheduled for Monday evening. Costs of Living To Be Hiked; Farmers Not To Be Blamed Living costs definitely have gone up, but don’t blame the farm er for the prices you are forced to pay. This advice comes from C. E. Bowles, extension specialist in or ganization and cooperative mar keting of the Texas A. & M. Col lege. Before Pearl Harbor a year’s supply of foods for the average working man’s family cost $462, Bowles says in quoting figures from a check made by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Three months later staple foods —beans, pork, bread, milk,, pota toes—had risen to $484, an advance of $22. Of this $22 increase farmers got $6 in higher return for their pro duce. Every time the farmer re ceived an additional dollar, an ex tra $2.66 went into the pockets of those who buy, .process, transport and sell these foods to the ulti mate consumer, Bowles declared. - There were 58 items of food in cluded in this study. The con sumer’s dollar as split is 51 cents to the farmer and 49 cents to those who handle it before it gets on the dinner table, and for the first time in 21 years the farmer received as much as half of the food dollar. —FOOTBALL— (Continued from Page 3) Aggies face in a ten game schedule, which even under ordinary cir cumstances would have been one of the toughest in the nation. As if this were not bad enough, the coaching staff has been ser iously depleted, and there will not NOTICE! Captains and Second-in-Commands: We have three 21-jew- el Hamilton Pocket Watches and a num ber of nice 19-jewel Hamilton Wrist- Watches. If you have not found a watch for your Captain call us today. CALDWELL’S Jewelry Store Bryan -MEANDERINGS— (Continued From Page 2) the world—on Lea Rea. His price was a cool $3,000 for two nights. Them were the good ’ole days. Watch for a new ballad that is sure to be a hit in a few weeks. . . “Light a Candle in the Chapel”. It can’t miss. Bobby Stephens is sticking by his promise in “having the greatest parade of big name bands this school has even seen. Nothing is too good for the Aggies.” See you Satidy night at the Barn- those blue jeans and that chaw o’ tobaccy. By the way, guess who J s going to play on the Bandwagon the 13th M-m-m-m could be. —KYLE FIELD— (Continued From Page 3) breast stroke crown by finishing over 30 yards ahead of everyone and was coasting with ease at the finish. . . Besides San Angelo the Aggie poloists will also stop off at Lamease and Big Springs on their holiday tour, September 19-26 ac cording to Lt. W. A. North, coach of the malletmen. . . —TWILIGHT— (Continued from page 3) miscues by the Loupot fielders. Then in the first of the fourth Loupot’s tallied on Hejl’s long homer to left field. In the last of the fpurth Lipscomb’s were held scoreless by the Loupot defense, and in the first of the fifth it was another goose egg for Loupot’s Lipscomb’s scored four runs in the first of the fifth when Sims was safe by error, and when four successive hits were made by Smith, Roberts, Atkins, and Schaper. With it so dark that the Lips comb’s outfielders couldn’t see the ball, Loupot’s scored four runs on errors by the Lipscomb’s fielders in the first of the sixth inning. Umpire Willie Zapalac then called the game because of darkness, and reverted the score of the game back to the end of the preceding inning with the final score—Lips comb’s 7, Loupot 2.. Lipscomb 0 1 2 0 4 — 7 Loupot 0 0 110 — 2 Batteries — Shaw, Newberry, Hejl, and Taylor; A. Cokinos and Hoecker. WHATS SHOWING AT GUION HALL Thursday, Friday—“Sons of the Sea”, with Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson and Griffith Jones. AT THE CAMPUS Thursday only—“The Girl from Alaska”, with Ray Mid dleton and Jean Parker. Friday, Saturday —“The Mayor of 44th Street”, with George Murphy and Anne Shirley. Sophomores— We Serve ALL KINDS OF FOUNTAIN DRINKS AND SANDWICHES Made The Way You Like Them Also \ CIGARS AND CANDY GEORGE’S Across From New Y SOPHOMORES — LET US FIX HER CORSAGE ARTISTICALLY ARRANGED BY EXPERIENCED DESIGNERS We Can Make Only One Delivery at 6 P. M. Due to Government Restriction — Our Prices Are Right J. COULTER SMITH Bryan Phone 2-6725 LISTEN TO WTAW Thursday, Sept. 3 11:25 a.m.—Music. 11:30 a.m.—Neighborhood Call (Office of War Infor mation). 11:45 a.m.—Brazos Valley Farm and Home Program —Farm Security Admin istration. 11:55 a.m.—The Town Crier. 12:00 noon—Sign-Off. Friday, September 4 11:25 a.m.—Music. 11:30 a.m.—Music. 11:30 a.m.—You Can’t Do Business With Hitler (Of fice for Emergency Man agement). 11:45 a.nd—Brazos Valley . Farm and Home Program Tripple-A. 12:00 noon—Sign-Off. 4:30-5:30 p.m.—THE AGGIE CLAMBAKE. -INTRAMURALS— (Continued From Page 3) Volleyball H CAC 2, 4th Stoop QMC 0 L Inf. 2, HQ Cav. 0 3rd HQ FA 2, E FA 1 CLASS B Softball 2nd HQ FA 9, B Eng. 7 2nd HQ FA 11, E Eng. 5 I Inf. 14, E FA 3 D FA 17, A SC 10 Tennis 1st HQ FA 3, D Cav. 0 C CAC 2, H Inf. 1 A CWS 2, Amer. Leg. 1 F CAC 2, E FA 1 E Eng. 2, HQ Cav. 1 SEE LOUPOT FOR A UNIFORM THAT WILL PLEASE YOU HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOR USED BOOKS In the Following Courses: Accounting and Statistics: 201 310 407 302 409 Agricultural Economics: 101 314 103 310 423 310 426 Agricultural 201 Engineerin g: 322 208 424 Agronomy: 105 318 301 418 Animal Husbandry: 107 406 415 202 407 416 313 Biology: 101 412 418 106 111 102 107 206 Chemistry: 212 A01 342 212 301 324 214 Civil Engineering: 202 311 345 206 315 347 305 Dairy Husbandry: 202 408 418 306 415 420 Economics: 316 403 311 412 Electrical Engineering: 208 308 305 310 Engineering Drawing: 111 112 English: 103 210 317 104 307 401 207 Fish and Game: 201 804 Genetics: Geology: 204 301 210 320 205 302 404 History: 105 214 307 106 306 Horticulutre: 201 318 202 319 Mathematics: 101 109 102 110 204 103 202 104 203 Mechanical Engineering: 212 320 220 338 446 307 404 M. S. E.: 402 408 406 412 Petroleum Engineering: 204 402 414 306 404 416 308 408 Physics: 202 Poultry Husbandry: 201 310 303 410 308 Psychology: ry: 315 Rural Sociolog: 204 Mem check this list care fully and sell early to re ceive the highest possible prices. ACT NOW while there is a market for used books for both of us! LOUPOT^ Trading Post J. E. Loupot—’32