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THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 1, 1942-
THE BATTALION
California Woman Lieutenant
Heads Feminine Cavalry Unit
(From the Los Angeles Collegian)
Lieutenant of the only feminine
emergency cavalry unit, Miss
Marian E. Pettit, physical educa
tion instructor at UCLA, heads a
unique organization which carries
messages, searches for lost persons
and rescues disaster victims from
inaccessible places.
Because there are still some
localities in the San Fernando Val
ley and in the Hollywood Hills
where a motor vehicle cannot be
driven, local horsewomen are or
ganizing a mounted corps that is a
part of the Red Cross Motor Corps.
There are 17 charter women
members who are regular mem
bers of the Red Cross Motor Corps
and have finished their standard
and advanced first-aid courses and
passed their motor mechanics tests.
Experienced Riders
All experienced riders, they are
familiarzing themeslves with the
bridle paths and hillside firebreaks
so they will be able to reach al
most inaccessible spots even dur
ing a blackout.
Those wishing membership must
live in North Hollywood, Burbank,
or Glendale, or they will be too
far away to do much good in an
emergency. Only better than aver
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age riders will be accepted. Pro
spective members are taken out
on an actual practice to see if they
can qualify.
Various Stables Used
Different stables in the vicinity
are used each time so that each
rider will not depend on the same
horse and also that members may
lear to handle as many horses as
possible.
Each member also donates at
least half a day a week to any
other branch of the Red Cross.
Many are in the blood donor ser
vice. All the others, like Marian
Pettit, who was unwilling to talk
about herself, have been riding for
years. Mrs. Pettit, small, brown
haired, athletic instructor, has been
riding for the past 20 years.
Usefulness Proved
Due to automobile rationing and
the inability of cars to reach un
usual places in hills or canyons,
the cavalry unit is forging ahead
daily in proving its usefulness and
the dexterity of members. The
equestrians are ready at any mom
ent to search for persons lost in
the hills, or to go to the rescue of
plane crash, flood or disaster vic
tims who might otherwise lie help
less for hours while motor units
I tried to reach them on mountain
tops, canyons or flood-isolated
“islands.”
A&M Only College
With Diesel Engine
The Aeronautical Engineering
laboratory of A. & M. is possessor
of the only Diesel airplane engine
ever allowed to be used for class
room study, Dr. Howard Barlow,
head of the department, announc
ed today.
All other products of the Gui-
berson Disel factory have been
turned over to the government in
the wartime program, but Allen
W. Guiberson, vice-president of the
company, got special release on the
engine presented to the college, and
future aeronautical engineers turn
ed out by A. & M. will be familiar
with the workings of this new
type power plant for airplanes.
General Electric
Salvages Critical
Metals from Ashes
Ashes taken from two process-
steam boiler pits in the salvage de
partment’s shop are yielding criti
cal materials at one of the General
Electric Company's major Works.
Shop refuse and rubbish from all
parts of the Works are used for
fuel. Ashes removed from the boil
er pits are passed through a ball
mill, or grinder; a magnetic sepa
rator, which sorts out the finer
particles. Metals reclaimed by this
method include iron, steel, brass,
copper, and aluminum. In 1941 a
total of 624,000 pounds was re
covered, representing a gross cash
return of $10,000.
Other items, which in the past
have been unsalvageable econom
ically, are yielding critical mater
ials in quantities that are worth
while in these times. For example,
the salvage department receives
from the wire-drawing department
a waste known as “copper and
grease.” It is taken from the pits
under the wire-drawing machines
and consists of a mixture of wire
drawing compound and fine cop
per particles. The wire-drawing
compound is in liquid form, and
contains water, soap and tallow
which is applied to the drawing
dies for lubrication and cooling.
This flows into a pit underneath
the wire-drawing machine and
carries with it fine pieces of copper.
It is shoveled from the pit into
steel drums and when the water
and grease are removed, the cop
per remains in dry, hard chunks.
Last year 88,200 pounds of copper
reclaimed in this way were ship
ped out to the smelters and ven
dors for conversion into raw ma
terials. Gross return: $8000.
Elmer Davis, head of the office
of war information, was graduated
from Franklin college in 1910.
Only four men have been twice
elected of University of Wisconsin
football teams.
Iowa State college short courses
drew a total of 12,502 persons to
the campus last term.
Forty University of Pittsburg
co-eds from Johnstown, Pa., offer
to writeto every, soldier, sailor
and marine who communicates
with the club at Pitt’s Johnstown
center.
Hardin Junior College Celebrates
Twenty-One Years in Educational Field
Did you know that Hardin Jun
ior College is now of age? Old
enough to vote?
The year just closed was the
twentieth in the history of the col
lege and so this week the college
is starting its twenty-first year.
September 11, 1942, Wichita Falls
Junior College started with 39 stu
dents. Classes were held in what
is now Reagan Junior High School,
with a few classrooms set aside
for college laboratories used by
the college after high school hours.
All classes were taught by teachers
also teaching high school work.
May 5, 1925, the college moved
into its magnificent new building
on Avenue H, now the senior high
school. This was then reported to’
be the largest school building in
Texas. Growth of the high school
was so rapid that it soon
crowded the college. Plans for a
larger junior college, even a senior
college, were going along rapidly,
when the depression came along,
and knocked them all out for the
time being.
In 1935 just when it looked al
most as if the college would have
to be abandoned, Mr. and Mrs. J.
G. Hardin, pioneers from Burkbur-
nett, offered to give a partial en
dowment if Wichita Falls would,
furnish buildings and grounds and
the remainder of needed support.
Campaigns for such action were
successful. The Federal government
gave the college a couple of grants
totaling $17,000 and the city voted
an overwhelming vote for a $200,
000 bond issue. Then W. B. Ham
ilton and N. H. Martin,-two public
spirited citizens, gave the first
forty acres of land. In 1936 the
college name was changed to Hard
in, in honor of the two pioneers
whose encouragement came just in
time to save the college. While the
new buildings were not completed
in September 1936 at fall term’s
opening, the First Methodist
Church gave the college the use of
its roomy educational building, and
classes were held there, as the
third campus for the college, until
March 15, 1937, when the college
moved into its present location.
Since that time rapid progress
was made, with the addition of
aviation courses, a machine shop,
another forty acres of land, and
numerous internal improvements.
Last year was the first year for
the college under a separate board
of trustees. Formerly the public
school board also the college board
and the city superintendent served
also as college president.
Another step in the history of
the college has its beginning now
with a new board and a new ad
ministrative set-up as well as a
number of new faculty members.
Texas is fifth in the manufac
ture of cheese and eighth in the
total income from the sale of milk.
Merle Evans, for 24 years cir
cus band director for Ringling
Brothers and Barnum and Bailey,
has been chosen leader of the
Hardin Simmons university cow
boy band.
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