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■THE BATTALION-
-SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, 194S
OFFICIAL
NOTICES
Classified
FOR SALE—Man’s Victory bike equipp
ed with spring seat, chrome handle bars,
chain guard, rubber pedals. Price $33.00.
Call 4-7969.
LOST—At swimming pool engraved
Hamilton wrist watch. Liberal reward. R.
J. McLellan, Room 119, Dorm. 15.
WANTED TO BUY—Any model auto
mobile that is in good shape, particular-
ily interested in Fords and Chevrolets. Will
pay top prices. Phone 2-8630, Bryan,
Texas.
Church Notices
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES!
Assembly Room—YMCA
11:00 a.m.
Aggies and Service men welcome.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Corner and 27th S. College, Bryan
E. S. Bledsoe, Pastor
9:45 Sunday School
11:00 Communion and Sermon
6:30 Young People’s Meeting
7:30 Evening Vesper Services
The A. & M. class extends an invitation
to all members to attend the party on
the church lawn tonight at 8 o’clock.
OFFICE OF THE COMMANDANT
CIRCULAR NO. 4
1. STUDENTS who have guests will
arrange with their respective TACTICAL
OFFICER for sleeping accommodations in
the dormitory for hteir guests.
2. Only the garrison cap (over-seas
cap) will be worn by students while' on
pass.
By order of Colonel WELTY:
Joe E. Davis
Major, Infantry
Assistant Commandant
ST. THOMAS’ CHAPEL
(Episcopal)
The Rev. J. Hugh R. Farrell, Chaplain.
.First Sunday after Trinity.
Holy Communion 9:30
Coffee Club 10:00
Morning
Church School 11:00
ing P’rayer 11:00
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, College
R. L. . Brown, Pastor
C. Roger Bell, Education and Music
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School
10:60 a.m.—Morning Worship
1:30 p.m.—B. S. U. Council
4:00 p.m.—Choir Rehearsal
6:15 p.m.—B. T. U.
7:15 p.m.—Evening Worship
Wednesday evening 7 :30 p.m.—Mid-
Week Prayer Service.
Daily Prayer Service at 6:30 p.m. at
the church and at the New Y. M. C. A.,
All who wish to attend are always wel
come.
We welcome the Students and Service
men to all the services of our church.
—ENGINEERS—
(Continued From Paare 1)
One of California’s (ah-that land
of sunshine and honeys) favorite
sons, Section 80’s Foster ran the
300 yard dash during our present
term final physical tests in 37.5
seconds. Pretty fair time—and he
wasn’t puffing either.-
Editor Bradley is again confin
ed. This time it is to the hospital
with a severe cold. A drink of
something stronger than beer
would help considerably. No Brad
—No Saga—So sorry!
The question of furloughs is still
uppermost in the minds of the
Engineers. Will they come through
—When do they start and what
time can we leave—How long will
they last—Will everyone be allow
ed to go? All are indeed pertinent
—But—There is another subject
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give that extra. Mea
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distinction every officer
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Officers’ and Enlisted
Men’s O’Sea Caps
Chino Khaki O’Seas
Caps $1.00 to $1.50
All Wool Tropical Worst
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RUDDER DUST
(Continued from Page 3)
Ole “Oncle Zeke” may appear to
be doing some rambling tonight
as he expects to see his gal from
lowee next Saturday. I guess the
old boy is just love sick.
Squadron III is to be given its
first passes this week-end and ex
pects to take over the nearby me
tropolis. This is supposed to serve
as fair warning to the beavers
from the other squadrons. (Looks
as though the Eager Beaver Squad
ron is indulging in a wee bit of
boasting.)
An urgent request is being is
sued for men who can play reed
instruments, especially soprano
saxophones, for the band. Any in
terested parties can get further in
formation from Lt. Kelley’s office
in Hart Hall.
Hats off to the swell bunch of
Aggies who gallantly serve as
waiters in Sbisa Hall. They really
tend to the job of seeing that the
men get plenty of food. Let’s give
them our smiles instead of our
growls.
It appears that the gods of
poetry have taken a firm hold on
our men as a result of the change
in temperature. Ah me! Spring
and a young man’s fancy.
DISTRACTIONS- &
(Continued from Page 2)
affecting the heart and mind of
each engineer. It is one of vast
importance and national interest,
with probably a direct bearing on
the war effort also, though that
seems slightly veiled. If it should
be carried to the conclusion that
at present seems apparent, how
shall we be able to explain it to
our allies? Whether this most ser
ious menace will be unleashed on
the entire population or confined
to its present locale is also a
perplexing subject.
The question—Will Stonface be
able to liquidate both Lester Gooch
and Fearless Fosdick ? ? ?
’Bye Now!
BLUE NOTES BY “BOTTS”
Well here we go again. By the
way gates, did you notice the
“Nom de Plume” contributed by
J3HRAEDER, HUGUELET, and
ROBINSON. (French translation:
Re - - - - oh well you know what
it means anyway.) Relax, sit back
in your easy chairs, pour yourself
a scotch and soda, King size, and
listen to my story.
Through the soft hush of early
morning comes the faint, steady
beat of marching feet. Hut - - two
- - three - - four - - hut hut.
The beat becomes louder, louder,
louder, and finally a body of twen
ty two stalwart men is seen on
the horizon, marching to a P. T.
class. Two Generals standing near
by seem to be very much concern
ed, let’s listen in on their conversa
tion. “What outfit are those men
from?” - - - “Why haven’t you
heard? That’s cadet Lt. Jack Joi’-
dan and section 177 of A. S. T. U.
3800.” - - - “Fine body of men.”
(That last plug cost JORDAN ex
actly thirty-five cents) Let us re
member that none of us is per
fect and as we stand to more fully
admire these men as they pass
by, we see something that annoys
us. Ah yes, the syncopation kids,
MASSION and SACCO. One is a
half beat ahead of the step and
the other one is a half beat be
hind. . . . Let’s follow these men
and see just what goes on in their
physical training period. What day
is it? Saturday? Hmmmm . . . .
must be going to the obstacle
course. Yes there they go, past
the volley ball courts, down the
highway to the deep forest, (Deep
forest meaning any single acre
of ground having three to four
trees neatly spaced throughout that
acre) . . . Notice the grim deter
mination, (sorry, misprint, . . .
should be persperation) in the eyes
of the men as they approach the
nine foot wall. With the grace of
an antelope they flounder up to the
wall, crouch for the spring, up . . .
up . . . up . . ., well you almost
made it HOERNER. I guess we
will just have to leave you behind.
Notice the ease with which DRIS
COLL pilots himself across the
overhead bars. I have heard from
good authority that “Red” poses
for these “Physical Culture” maga
zine adds. You know, the ones that
read as follows: “I too used to be
tired and run down, until I found
the new magic formula for health.”
(I guess he must have been draft
ed too. SNAFU) And so it is with
all the obstacles until we see the
last man coming in with a final
burst of speed. (Your supposed to
run, VANCE, not crawl) The photo
graphers and newspaper men are
crowding around him now. Maybe
if we get a little colser we can
hear what he has to say.’ “Puff .
. . puff ... it was a great race
Mom, and Pm glad I didn’t win.
Original isn’t he . . . Happy but
tired (What the H do you
mean happy) the men reassemble
to march back to the dorm and
a shower. From there they carry
on with the lighter aspects of their
work here at Texas A. & M. such
ten psychiatrist. The show is one
hour and thirteen minutes of hor
ror with no comedy relief whatso
ever. It is definitely not the thing
for a play-date or children, young
or old.
The Lowdown: A dose of horror
best suited for addicts past the
curable age. See it and be chilled.
TIME TO KILL is the feature
at Guion Hall today only. This is
another show certainly not to be
classified for children.
Lloyd Nolan, as Michael Shayne,
is out to solve a bunch of murders
connected with the old coin busi
ness. It seems like everytime he
is about to wind things up, some
one else is bumped off, and so on
to the end of the show. The roman
tic business is not given the prop
er treatment though. The picture
has Heather Angel playing the
part of a neurotic secretary to a
dowager that is .certainly not be
coming to her. Dorris Merric, as
the night club singer, could have
been put in a better spot also. The
mystery in the show will keep you
guessing all the time and from all
appearances, it even confuses the
actors.
The Lowdown: Call- it a good
class B murder mystery.
Sunday and Monday at Guion
Hall is one of the topnotch pic
tures of the year: NOW VOYAG
ER, starring Bette Davis, Paul
Henreid, and Claude Rains.
This is truly one of Miss Davis’
best performances and according
to those who have seen it, it is a
hard show to forget. The story is
centered around the youngest
daughter of a Boston matriarchal
tyrant and her desire to live her
own life the way she wants it. In
order to do this, Bette sheds her
bonds to her family and leaves.
Her path crosses Paul Henreid and
ultimately, his child, (Bonita Gran
ville) who was as unwanted as
she. How she sets the child on the
path to freedom from repression
and inhibitions is the rest of the
drama. While the two lovers, Hen
reid and Miss Davis, continue their
romance from afar, recompense
comes for Bette in her ennobling
work.
Her performance in the picture
is as warm and sympathetic as it
is unforgettable.
The Lowdown: A truly great pic
ture.
NEW ASSISTANT MANAGER
FOR LOCAL WARD STORE
E. L. Carter, formerly with the
Montgomery Ward Company store
at Beeville, has been transferred
to the Bryan store as assistant
manager.
Mr. Clark, wife and daughter
already have arrived in Bryan.
BRYAN YOUTH HONORED
Young John Vernon King, Jr.,
of Bryan, whose father, Maj. John
Vernon King, was for 21 years
stationed at Texas A. & M. and
was on Corregidor when it fell,
was made an honorary member
of the Junior Civitans at Dallas
Thursday.
as Thermo, Calculus, Mechanics,
etc.
Am I boring you? Well, what
the H (censored) did you
read this far for?
Take it slow, see you next week.
1ST. SGT’S GUFF
By David Springwater
We went to the library last night
and returned to find our room un
accountably in a mess. Tut, fel
lows, let’s not start anything . . .
Great Day: One half of the com
pany was promoted to Pfc ... We
knew that earnest endeavor and
native ability would sooner or lat
er be recognized. Comments so
prano voiced, bewhiskered Pfc.
Hoerner: “After a year and a half
of effort, I’m glad to have final
ly made the grade. I attribute my
success to the “never give up” at
titude I inherited from my father;
Once I came into the Army, I was
determined not to leave it until
I had succeeded. Needless to say,
now that I have succeeded I am
ready ...” It would seem that
we are indeed a company of distin
guished men, what with West
Pointer Putzer and Artist Ecale.
Who’s next? . . . Well, Class II
has started its refresher courses.
See what we mean, fellows? If
you want to take a look at our
texts or find out what’s coming,
just drop in and ask us . . . Have
you ever passed by the Dormicile
of Messers Robinson and Taylor
of an evening? You’ll see Robin
son sitting on the floor working
Mechanics Problems with chalk
while Taylor operates the slip-
stick. When they are through with
a problem, they just mop up the
floor, and start another. They say
that it is a very effective way to
memorize Calc. Formulae. . . .
LISTEN TO
WTAW
. 1150 kc.
Saturday, June 26, 1943
11:25 a.m. Today’s Summary on
the Home Front.
11:30 a.m. Our Neighbor, Mexi
co.
11:40 a.m. Dramatized News In
cident
11:45 a.m. News Summary —
Dr. Ralph Steen
12:00 a.m. Sign-off
Sunday, June 27, 1943
8:30 a.m. Music by Masters -—
Hauer
9:10 a.m. Let’s Go to Church
9:15 a.m. Hymns of All Church
es
9:30 a.m. Sign-off
Monday, June 28, 1943
6:02-6:14:40 a.m. Texas Farm
and Home Program—TQN
Horticulture—R. F. Cain; Ani
mal Husbandry—D. W. Williams
11:25 a.m. Today’s Summary on
the Home Front ^
11:30 a.m. Engineering School—
Fred R. Benson, ESMWT Pro
gram.
11:40 a.m. Science News of the
week
11:45 a.m. Singing Cadets
11:55 a.m. News—Interviews
12:00 a.m. Sign-off
—COTTON—
(Continued from Page 1)
It was announced by Dr. Trotter
that three trucks have been se
cured to take the 1943 school on
an early morning trip through the
Brazos bottoms, July 7. This re
gion, he called one of the greatest
cotton producing areas in the
world. The students will see dust
ing of cotton fields from airplanes,
cotton growing in the fields, and
the gin setup on the George
Chance plantation.
The next address scheduled for
the 1943 cotton school is on “Keep
ing Cotton Quality at the Gin,”
by Francis L. Gerdes, in charge
of the laboratory of the Research
and Testing Division, Cotton and
Fiber Branch, Food Distribution
Administration, USD A, at Stone-
ville, Miss. Gerdes also is a Texas
A. & M. graduate, a B. S. in Agri
cultural Administration in the 1928
class.
June Month For
Rooting Cuttings
and PruningShrubs
June is an appropriate time for
rooting cuttings and summer prun
ing of shrubs, says Sadie Hatfield
of the A. & M. College Extension
Service. Cuttings from nearly all
plants may be rooted at this time,
but they should have plenty of
water and some shade to assure
development of a root system and
growth. Pinks, carnations and al
most all shrubs and trees also may
be rooted.
Miss Hatfield, who is the Exten
sion specialist in landscape garden
ing, discloses that cuttings of
green growing branches frequent
ly root within a few hours. Wood
of the size of a pencil usually is
about right, although larger and
smaller pieces are used. Removing
all leaves close to the stem except
two at the top helps the cutting to
get started, and placing three
fourths or more of it under ground
helps form a root system.
Light summer pruning of shrubs
tends to check growth of twigs
and leaves, and aids the plant
to form a crop of fruit and flow
ers for next spring. Pruning should
include removal of dead or diseas
ed limbs and the cutting back —
not too heavily—of branches which
are obstructing other plants, or
getting in the way of pathways
or windows.
Pruning below ground—if not
done too heavily—as well as above
ground, also encourages formation
of flowers and fruit, Miss Hatfield
says. This operation, called root
pruning, is performed by sinking
a sharp spade into the ground and
cutting a portion of the root. This
may be done up to July 15. It may
be tried on healthy fruit trees and
shrubs which do not bloom as
freely as they should.
Plants should be given a reason
able amount of moisture and fer
tilizer after pruning.
Food Preservation
Is Important Talk
In Texas TheseDays
Big Talk in Texas these days is
food preservation. Many folks are
canning who never saw the inside
of a pressure cooker before, and
others are demonstrating ingenu
ity in the home-construction of
driers.
For example, Mrs. W. I. Byrd,
member of the Gresham home
demonstration club in Smith
County, got the help of her hus
band in making a home drier frdm
an old marble machine found in a
store. Using scrap material, Mrs.
H. R. Smith and her daughter, Mrs.
Gilbert Riley, of Bell County, made
a dyier at a cost of $1.
Tina Stewart, Bell County home
demonstration agent, says Mrs.
Smith and Mrs. Riley are using
the drier for carrots, greens,
beans, and small white potatoes
which are too small to store. They
are blanching these until the
skin slips, peeling them, and cut
ting the larger ones into thin
slices. The smaller ones are put
through a ricer and dried as pota
to meal. Mrs. Riley says she stirs
this meal into scalded milk and
whips it into fluffy mashed pota
toes.
Mrs. Bryan Dawson of George
town, Williamson County, is can
ning for her neighbors and friends
at 35 cents an hour when the pro
ducer furnishes containers and
brings products ready to be can
ned. So far, she has canned for
one customer every day and, with
her own canning, is kept busy.
Fifty-four pressure cookers for
folks in Houston have been check
ed by Mrs. H. H. Fletcher of the
Spring Branch home demonstra
tion club, Harris County. The
Kashmere Gardens club in the
same county checks cookers for 25
cents each.
Carryover In Blue
Stamps Announced
A carryover period for blue
stamps in War Ration Book No.
2 will be continued for subse
quent months, the regional Office
of Price Administration announc
ed Wednesday as it was revealed
that stamps N, P and Q will be
valid for buying processed foods
from July 1 to Aug. 1, inclusive.
June stamps K, L, and M will
be valid through July 7.
Red stamps, J, K, L, M and N,
used for purchases of meats, fats,
oils and cheeses, expire next Wed
nesday. OPA' asked housewives to
spread out purchases to avoid
last minute rushes at stores.
Training for Cotton
Pickers Suggested
With cotton-picking time just
around the corner, the cotton grow
er is going into a huddle with him
self for any means that will speed
up the cotton harvest. Everyone
knows that the picking of cotton
by hand is a slow, tiresome, gruel
ling task It takes a good deal of
time and much labor, and labor is
a scarce article around the farm
these global war days.
By way of suggestion, H. P.
Smith, chief of the Division of
Agricultural Engineering of the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station thinks we might take a
cue from the war training system.
He points out that some individuals
can pick cotton faster than others.
Why not, he asks, get some out
standing pickers to train the slow
er pickers in the methods they
use?
There is an humble science in
good cotton picking. One should
pick as much cotton with the left
hand as with the right. Before a
boll is finished the good picker
looks ahead and has the next one
located. Mr. Smith points out that
there is also an art in getting the
proper wrist movement so that the
cotton is slipped out of the boll
without breaking if off from the
plant, and then having to stop and
remove the cotton from the bur.
Farmers of Northwest Texas and
Western Oklahoma speed up their
cotton harvest by “snapping” both
the cotton and the bur from the
plant, Mr. Smith said. A good
man can snap 700 or 800 pounds,
gross weight, per day, but the
average will range between 400 and
500 pounds. About a fourth to a
third of the total weight of snap
ped cotton is burs and trash. The
crop, however, is harvested more
than twice as rapidly as when
picked, Mr. Smith said.
Many cotton growers are show
ing tremendous interest in mechan
ical apparatus for harvesting their
cotton crops. Machine strippers
with revolving stripper rolls will
harvest from 80 to 95 per cent of
the crop, Mr. Smith claimed. They
are effective and profitable when,
used on suitable types of cotton.
Cotton picking machines will also
harvest a good percentage of the
cotton crop. Such machines when
used as tractor attachments, Mr..
Smith said, will speed up the cot
ton harvest several times over the
hand picking and hand snapping
methods.
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