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Page 4- -THE BATTALION- -THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1943 Official Notices Found The following articles may be obtained at the Commandant’s Office on identi fication : Slide Rule found in Petroleum Building. Classified RIDES for 15 to Brownwood or Cisco in school bus. Leave Old Y.M.C.A. Sat urday afternoon. See Shults, P. H. No. 6. Phone 4-4974. WANTED—Will exchange room and board to student for work. 707 S. Tabor or call 2-8235. WANT TO BUY a model airplane gas engine. Class C ?????. Would like to get an Olsen “60” if possilbe. Call by room 26, Puryear Hall, Ramp 7. LOST—Black and white stripe lifetime Shaeffer pen. Return to Mrs. Mac, College Inn Cafe. Reward. LOST—Billfold belonging to R. C. Hal- tom in Sbisa Hall at Senior Ring Dance. Finder may keep currency, but please return valuable cards enclosed. Liberal reward. R. C. Haltom, H CAC, 67 Law. Announcements • ALL SINGING CADETS please note: For Commencement wear No. 1 with Khaki shirt. Be at Guion Hall, the side door, at 6:15 p.m. without fail. 1. For THURSDAY, JAN. 21, and FRI DAY, JAN. 22, ONLY, calls will be sounded for RETREAT as follows: 1st CALL, RETREAT 6:10 p.m. ASSEMBLY 6:13 p.m. RETREAT 6:15 p.m. MESS CALL—Immediately after Re treat. Modern Language: Course 206—Intermediate Spanish (3) 601 TThSU Industrial Engineering: Course 404—Time Study Engineering (3) 600 Thl2W2 Course 407—Seminar (1) 500 M10 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNI VERSITY PROFESSORS — Tonight at 8 o’clock in the Physics lecture room the A.&M. Chapter of the American Asso ciation of University Professors will hold an open meeting to which all members of the college staff are invited. The speaker will be Dr. D. S. Kimball, Dean Emeritus of the College of En gineering at Cornell University, who has taught in the Department of Industrial Engineering here this semester as a dis tinguished professor. Dr. Kimball holds several of the highest honors in the en gineering field. He will speak on the origin and history of the land-grant col leges, their relation to other universities, their growth in importance, and some of their possible weaknesses. The local chapter of the American As sociation of University Professors has asked the School of Engineering to join them in extending an invitation to all Gifts for Graduates Toilet Kits Shaving Kits Aggie Jewelry Aggie Pennants Aggie Pillows Regulation Shirts Regulation Ties Reg. Field Jackets Reg. Trench Coats Hansen Gloves Holeproof Reg. Sox f I^aMrop & (o “Two Convenient Stores” College Bryan staff members of the A. & M. College to attend their meeting in the Physics Lec ture Room Thursday evening, January 21 at eight o’clock in order to hear an ad dress by Dean Dexter S. Kimball on the subject of education in land-grant colleges. The speaker is Dean Emeritus of Cornell University ’ ' ' " ’ ' - “ and is at A. & M. during the dees of the School of Engineering. Those who attend the meeting Thursday evening will hear an interesting and worthwhile address. PRE-MEDICAL STUDENTS—The med ical aptitude test which is to be taken by all pre-medical students who expect to apply for admission to Medical College during the coming year is to be given on Friday, Jan. 22, at 2 p.m. in room 10, Science Building. The examination fee will be collected at that time. Company to Hire 40.000 Women in 1943 A former music teacher, an ex- newspaperwoman, a retired head waitress, a minister’s wife, num erous grandmothers and hundreds of housewives are helping produce weapons of war at General Elec tric plants throughout the country. General Electric will be drawing from all walks of life during the coming year, by the end of which Gerald Swope, it’s president, es timates the company will be em ploying 40,000 women. By the end of 1944 G-E plants are ex pected to employ 80,000 women, or 15.000 more than pre-war employ ment of men and women combined. The personnel staff is busy re cruiting high school graduates, col lege girls, housewives—in fact, women of all ages who are anxious to join the “women’s army” on the production line—for jobs fall ing into five main categories: fac tory, drafting, engineering, labora tories and office. The latest factory demand for women is for welders and opera tors of milling machines, drill presses and gear cutters. Women who have exercised a mechanical bent by working around a garage, for example, as a boy might, are few and far between, so numerous training courses are supplying the answer. The American Eagle poised on guard above a cargo ship is the emblem to be used to identify United States food products sent throughout the world. License Plates Made From Plastics Faced with the problem of ob taining a priority for steel for the 1943 motor truck license tabs which must be added to all plates by the first of the year, Wallace G. Kit- tridge, director of the Commercial Vehicle division of the Common wealth of Massachusetts, appealed to General Electric for a substi tute material with the result that this year’s plates will be made of a light-weight laminated plastic. This change not only will save 16,000 pounds of steel, so vital for war production, but will reduce the postage bill three quarters for mailing the tabs. The tab is manufactured by Gen eral Electric of a laminated phen olic compound utilizing the printed and molded process. This consists of placing printed sheets bearing the required design on resin-im pregnated sheets of paper, and the whole bonded together under ap proximately 250 degrees Fahren heit temperature and 1500 pounds pressure. The pressing operation, which finishes the product in one operation and requires only min utes, converts the resin-impreg nated sheets and the printed mat ter into a homogeneous and strong product having excellent weather resistance. No additional surface treatment is required and after sawing and drilling, the taps are ready for the fastening to the 1942 plates. Most of the celery, onions, and lettuce, and much of the supply of other vegetables grown in New York state are produced on muck soils. Three rats eat and destroy enough feed in a year to carry two laying hens on a poultry farm. Air Cadets Have Hobbies—All Relaxing Aviation Cadets here may be a bit hazy as to the content of a milligram of energy, but they’re not taking any chances. Following the advice of the Mayo Clinic nerve specialist, Dr. M. N. Walsh, Uncle Sam’s fledgling fliers are now con serving energy by the pound. How? Dr. Walsh posed the prob lem and pointed to the solution. Learn to relax, he declared. He advised today’s pilots to take up stamp collecting, gadget making —any hobby—in order to get prop er relaxation. In line with Dr. Walsh’s advice, Aviation Cadet R. T. Celia of Princeton, N. J., and New York, N. Y., spends many of his free hours away from Randolph Field’s flying line photographing San An tonio landmarks. Cadet Celia first discovered pho tography while on a trip through Europe. He purchased his first camera in Germany, and since has experimented with outdoor color portraiture, color movies and high speed work, the latter being done while he was learning the ways of an aeronautical engineer at Massa chusetts Institute of Technology. Upon graduation, Cadet Celia worked first for Consolidated Air craft on the West Coast and later for Grumman Aircraft in New York. “I decided to join the Air Corps,” he explained, “in order to get a better background for my work. An aeronautical engineer can’t know too much about the mechanics of flying and the Air Corps is the best place to get this knowledge.” A second hobby of Aviation Ca det Celia is shared by three class mates—R. C. Peeke, Westfield, N. J.; B. A. Sill, Mineola, N. Y.; and C. D. Willcox, Norwich, N. Y. They make up an unofficial Cadet quar tet, taking turns with the piano accompaniment. Sill, a former tool and die mak er for EDO Aircraft Corporation, College Point, N. Y., is a tenor. “The rhythm of the machinery in the plant kept me patting my feet,” Sill declared. “In flying, a sense of rhythm is very helpful.” Cadet Peeke, an ex-student of the University of New York, is the quartet’s second tenor, and Cadet Willcox, who attended Purdue and Cornell Universities to learn hotel and institution management, is its baritone—^leaving the bass section to Celia. Aviation Cadet John A. O’Con nor, Chicago, 111., has the noisiest hobby of any of the current class of cadets at the “West Point of the Air.” He likes to play a trumpet. This horn-blowing hobby finds a ready outlet in the Cadet Drum and Bugle Corps, of which he is leader. While a student at North western University at Evanston, HI., Cadet O’Connor helped pay his way by playing with such name bands as Del Courtney, Hal Kemp, sic for that city’s 16 elementary schools. Two other Cadets who find re laxation are L. H. Bright, Phila delphia, Pa., and F. S. Bowne, Hen dersonville, N. C. Cadet Bright has photographed FQ&yiCTORY BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS and Art Jarrett. He received his B. S. degree from State Teachers College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and his Master’s from Northwestern in 1940. O’Connor put his musical ed ucation to work in Shreveport, La., as supervisor of instrumental mu a hundred million people. They ap peared as small dots on aerial pic tures of New York, Philadelphia, and Atlantic City. On receiving a journalism de gree from the University of North Carolina, Cadet Bowne began work BOUNTY PRICES! for Second-Hand Engineering Books With only a small number of selected books needed you should come in early this week to be sure of getting highest possible prices for those books you have ot sell. Also about 10% saving can be made on Loupot trades. 4 See me before you sell. LOUPOrS Trading Post North Gate not as a newspaperman but as a photographer. At Randolph Field, Cadet Bowne’s picture making has assumed the lesser proportions of an avocation, right in line with Dr. Walsh’s advice. Midget automobile designing is the unique—for a flier—hobby of Aviation Cadet R. W. McKittrick of Edwardsville, 111. He “got that way” by designing, building, and driving his own cars. “There’s something about the odor of burnt castor oil that gets in your veins,” McKittrick declared. “Midget rac ing is as exciting as flying—but much more hazardous. Aviation Cadet Ben F. Long, Statesville, N. C., is a cartoonist, who spends spare moments between flights sketching fellow students. He attended Oak Ridge Military Institute, the University of North Carolina, and worked for the Char lotte, N. C., News, before coming to Randolph. The son of an artist- minister, who studied art in Eu rope, Long learned drawing from his father. Three Randolph Cadets come close to being in Dr. Walsh’s gadget-making category. Aviation Cadets W. P. Williams, R. H. Howes, and F. C. McClanahan build model airplanes. Williams, of Scranton, Pa., once WHEN IN DOUBT ABOUT YOUR EYES OR YOUR G LASSES—Consult DR. J. W. PAYNE Optometrist 109 S. Main Bryan built a glider model, still in use at the University of Scranton in the study of aerodynamics. His collec tion of models includes twenty so small that they had to be built with tweezers. Solid, scale models are the spe cialty of Howes, whose home is large-scale Miami Beach, Fla. Mc Clanahan, of Homer, La., limits himself to no particular phase of model-making, having built every kind of model from fly-size to giant, motor-driven size. Coinciding exactly with Dr. Walsh’s suggestion, Aviation Ca det F. E. J. Beck, Verona, N. J., collects stamps—a hobby he took up as a seventh grader. Until World War II, he specialized in foreign stamps. “I’ve given up collecting Euro pean stamps,” he declared. “The Russians have a better idea. 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