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Page 4 ■THE BATTALION -TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1943 ASTP Reservists Program Is Announced! Elderly Couple By War Department for Boys of 17-18 Named “Victory Pair” by H.D. OFFICIAL NOTICES Classified LOST—At swimming pool engraved Hamilton wrist watch. Liberal reward. R. J. McLellan, Room 119, Dorm. 15. LOST—Billfold at Post Office Satur day, June 19, containing money and identification cards. Reward. Phillip H. Mecom, Jr. Room 219, Dormitory 17. Announcements Second installment of maintenance fees of $34.00, due July 1 to 8, inclusive, can be paid now. These fese include room rent $5.75, board $25.75, laundry $2.50, to August 10, 1943. t The Cashier of the Fiscal Department will accept these fees from 8 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. SENIOR RINGS Senior class rings which are due in Registrar’s Office July 1st, are now ready for delivery. The next order for rings will leave Registrar’s Office on the firs tof July. All students registered in A. & M. as classified juniors are eligible for a Senior Ring. Ring Clerk in the office from 8 a.m. to 12 NOON ONLY. H. L. Heaton Acting Registrar PRE-MED SOCIETY A meeting will be held Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. in the Biology Lecture Room. All Pre-Meds, Pre-Dental’s, and others interested are urged to be present. Dr. G. E. Potter will speak. OFFICE OF THE COMMANDANT , CIRCULAR NO. 4: 1. The following actions of the DIS CIPLINE COMMITTEE, duly approved by the PRESIDENT of the COLLEGE are announced: A. DISCIPLINE CASE NO. 740—Cadet Richard W. Winters. CHARGE: Having violated a direct or der in that he brought his car on to the campus after being ordered to keep it off, and further charged with having been out during call-to-quarters or after taps in that he was at the swimming pool at 3 :00 a.m. in the morning. He was further charged with having made a false official statement when questioned concerning hav ing his car on the campus. FINDINGS: Guilty. SENTENCE: To be suspended from college for the rest of the semester and to be denied the privilege of having an automobile on or near the campus. B. DISCIPLINE CASE NO. 741—Cadet Frank M. Brennan. CHARGE: Being in the swimming pool at 3:00 a.m. in the morning in a bath ing suit apparently with the intention of going swimming at that hour. FINDINGS: Guilty. SENTENCE: To be suspended from col lege for two weeks from date of depart- ture from the campus. C. DISCIPLINE CASE NO. 742—Cadet Marvin L. Utay. CHARGE: Direct violation of college regulations in that he had been taking his meals in the mess hall after having received a refund for his maintenance. FINDINGS: Guilty. SENTENCE: To be suspended for one week and to be required to pay for three meals a day from June 5, 1943 to and including June 23, 1943 before re-entering college. M. D. WELTY Colonel, Infantry Commandant Torrid rhymes with horrid, which is more truth than poetry. Mr. Stalin should note that we have a second front, even though it is badly disjointed. Tropical Worsted Shirts and Slacks You’ll like the extra smartness of these fine Tropical Worsted Shirts and Slacks. The shirts are properly cut — full shoulders and chest with form-fitted waist. The slacks are styled to fit, in a model that you will like. Tropical Shirt $6.50 Tropical Slack $7.50 Field Club Slacks . . . Cool, Comfortable and Good Looking - $6.00 Form-Fit Shirt $5.00 r;7aldropfl(8 "Two Convenient Stores** College Station Bryan nounced creation of the Army Spe cialized Training Reserve Pro gram under which qualified high school graduates between 17 and 18 years of age will be granted military scholarships providing for basic phase instruction in the Army Specialized Training Pro gram at selected colleges and uni versities. The Reserve Program will be limited to those volunteers who received qualifying scores on the preinduction test administered last April 2, and to those who qualify in similar tests to be given in the future. The next test is scheduled for early November. A maximum quota of 25,000 of these ASTP Reservists has been established by the War Depart ment. This is in addition to the quota of 150,000 set for the num ber of soldiers participating in the Army Specialized Training Pro gram at any one time. The Army Specialized Training Reserve Program is aimed to pro vide a direct flow of qualified young men toward Army Special ized Training prior to their enter ing active military duty. There will thus be established a constant reservoir of men with aptitudes and capacity for college-level train ing to meet the needs of the vari ous Arms and Services for high- grade technicians, specialists and candidates for officer training. The Army will thus provide an opportunity for men of superior aptitudes, who are not more than one year below Selective Service age, to embark on preparation for the most advanced military duties they are qualified to perform. Instruction in the Reserve Pro gram will begin this summer. Se lection of Reservists will begin immediately, with the first group of eligibles being chosen from those who qualified in the prein duction test administered last April 2 and who will not have attained their 18th birthday prior to August 15. This group will be limited to those who designated Army pref erence and those who did not des ignate any preference in the joint Army-Navy preinduction test last April. Qualified Reservists will be sent to selected institutions where they will receive instruction in basic phase courses of the Army Spe cialized Training Program. Un like ASTP trainees, the Reservists will not be on active duty, nor will they receive basic military training before entering the AST Program. Instead, they will be En listed Reservists on inactive duty and will wear civilian attire. Six hours of physical instruction week ly will also be prescribed. At the end of the term in which the trainee reaches his 18th birth day, he will be placed on active military duty and will be sent to an Army Replacement Training Center for the prescribed basic military training. On completion of that training, he will be sent, if qualified, to a STAR (Special ized Training And Reassignment) Unit where he will be screened for continuation in the Army Special ized Training Program in a par ticular field of study and in the highest term for which he is found qualified. He will then be assigned to an Army Specialized Training Unit. The ASTP Reservists’ work load will be similar to that of the regu lar ASTP trainee. The ASTP phys ical training program will be mod ified to take account of the young er age of the Reservists. The total work week will include approxi mately 57 hours of supervised ac tivity, made up of 24 hours of classroom and laboratory work, 24 hours of required study and the balance devoted to military and physical instruction. Where a stu dent is sent to an institution at which there is an ROTC unit, he will be given ROTC instruction. The military scholarship will provide for payment of tuition, messing, housing, and such medi cal service as is customary at the institution. Special notices of eligibility will be mailed by the War Department to those who received satisfactory scores on the April 2 preinduction test, who will not have reached their 18th birthdays prior to Au gust 15, 1943. This notice, besides advising the candidate of his eli gibility for the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program, will inform him that, if he is not al ready in the Enlisted Reserve Corps, he will be required to be come a member of that body be- for he can be granted an AST Re serve Program military scholar ship. Inclosed with this letter will be a post card on which the candi date will indicate whether he wishes to qualify for the Army Specialized Training Reserve Pro gram and whether he will volun teer for the Enlisted Reserve Corps. He will be instructed to mail this card without delay to the Commanding General of the Service Command in which he re sides. The address of that Service Command will be specified in the letter. He will also be sent a form to be filled out by his parents or guardian consenting to the candi date’s enlistment in the Enlisted Reserve Corps. Those who designate on the post cards that they wish to accept the military scholarship and to be come members of the Enlisted Re serve Corps will be fully instruct ed on procedures for doing so in a letter shortly thereafter from Headquarters of the Service Com mand in which they reside. In general, qualified candidates must: 1. Have a high school education. 2. Have passed their 17th birth day, but their 18th birthday must not occur prior to August 15, 1943. 3. Have passed the A-12 prein duction test. 4. Be voluntarily enlisted in the Enlisted Reserve Corps. 6. Meet physical requirements for general service enlisted men. Selection of colleges and univer sities for the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program will be made in the same manner as for the Army Specialized Training Program. Choice will be from among institutions cleared by the joint Army-Navy War Manpower Committee for basic phase instruc tion in the Army Specialized Training Program. Students while still on reserve status will not be entitled to Army pay or benefits which are provided by law for soldiers on active duty. Effort Sought To Wipe Out Black Market Practice The Black Market, a wartime fungus, has been defined as the sum total of a large number of relatively small-scale violations (of ceiling prices or ration points), rather than large-scale violations. by gangsters and law-breaking slaughterers, packers, or others. A Black Market can start from various sources and causes. But, says a joint summarization by the Office of War Information, U. S. Department of Agriculture and Of fice of Price Administration, it can, and most often does, start with certain consumers. These are per sons who demand or accept articlse of food without giving up the proper number of ration stamps in return; or who buy at exorbitant or above-ceiling prices; or who accept meat at a reduced point value without corresponding re duction in price; or who buy from farmers without giving ration stamps, or who accept stamps from friends. Government authorities remind, that fixed dollars and cents top consumer prices for individual cuts of beef, veal, lamb and mutton be came effective in all retail stores on May 17. Similar top legal prices for pork have been in effect since April 1. Departure from ceiling prices through patronizing a Black Market cheats patriotic citizens. It leaves a smaller share for law- abiding workers and their families, and causes a substantial loss in strategic byproducts such as hides, adrenalin, insulin, gelatin for films, fertilizers, bonemeal for livestock and other materials nec essary to winning the war. The full cooperation of consum ers is sought by the Government in its program to wipe out Black Markets. They can help by always giving up the proper number of ration points, never paying above ceiling prices for meat, and never accepting unused stamps from friends. Farmers who sell meat di rect ot retailers and consumers can render equal cooperation by collecting ration stamps and al ways observing ceiling prices. —WEAPON — (Continued from Pag* 1) hole in a tank’s armor, and through this hole blasts a column of fire so intense it fills the interior and breaks open the tank’s ammuni tion, setting the explosives on fire. The General, who saw much of the North African territory, said he had seen scores of tanks knock ed out by this shell, which will destroy Germany’s heavy tank, the Mark VI. “Our soldiers,” he said, ‘Hove this new weapon. It gives them a chance to use their Yankee ingenu- An elderly Hopkins County cou ple, Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Kent of Brinker, are deserving of the title “Victory Pair” in recognition of their contribution to the war, be lieves Tressie N. Youngblood, their county home demonstration agent. “Having made a great sacrifice graciously by sending a son to the Army and a daughter into a vital war industry,” the Kents have turned their attention to increased production of food, she says. They have had to achieve their goals without any extra help and have an amazing record for a couple ad vanced in years. The Kents feed and milk 10 cows which bring them a monthly income of $132. Their poultry flock consists of 70 layers and 70 young chickens, and sales of poultry prod ucts bring in about $9 a week. Although a large portion of the feed for poultry and livestock is raised on the Kents’ small farm, their monthly feed bill runs about $30. They have five acres of grain sorghum, 16 acres of com and peas, and one acre of peanuts. The family’s one and one-half acre garden includes large plots of tomatoes and white potatoes. Earlier in the spring the Kents canned 55 No. 2 cans of spinach from their garden. They also had 50 containers of food left from their 1942 canning. Mr. and Mrs. Kent have met the meat shortage by canning 13 pints of home-raised turkey and by feeding two hogs to slaughter in the fall. Mrs. Kent also finds time to assist her fellow home demonstra tion club women in the Brinker school lunch and canning program. ity. They have found hundreds of uses we never thought of.” Great for the Soldier General Barnes said the bazooka for the first time gives the indi vidual soldier a chance to defeat the heaviest tank. Before that he was helpless. The General has seen a bazooka shoot 200 yards effect ively. It is a three-and-a-half- foot-long tube with the gunner holding it like a log resting on his shoulder. Considerable practice is required. America has many new antiair craft weapons, the General contin ued. One which can be named is the 4.7-inch gun that fires a shell up to 60,000 feet altitude. “There are hundreds of wea pons,” he went on, “which the pub lic never has heard about. They are among 1,700 different principal weapons which the Ordance De partment has in production and for which the appropriations total fifty two billion dollars.” —COTTON— (Continued From Page 1) Ga.; Joe Cannon, Vernon, Texas; Arthur Fitzgerald, Stamford, Texas. FIFTH ROW—B. Juan Elespu- ru, Lima; Lucian Swearingen, Ada, Okla.; Edwin Schieffer, Dal las, Texas; Roy Forkner, Lubbock, Texas; S. D. Grooms, Coolidge, Texas; Charley Boenker, Bren- ham, Texas; S. E. Worthen, Phoe nix, Ariz.; Louis Bartheneuf, Jr., Torreon; Dr. Ide P. Trotter, direc tor, 1943 Summer Cotton School, A. & M. College; Victor Manvel Reyna, Torreon. Several students entered the cot ton school for two-weeks’ periods after this picture was taken. —CLEARING— (Continued From Page 1) sacrifice a large, vigorous non bearing tree for a smaller one which regularly bears a crop of quality nuts. Methods most often used for killing undesirable timber and brush include girdling, poisoning, kerosene treatment, and grubbing followed by poisoning. Girdling— removing a ring of bark from a tree trunk—is an effective method of killing large trees, although they die more slowly than by poisoning. This method is not suitable for killing bushes, since they tend to sprout below the point of girdling. Grubbing is the most practical method of removing underbrush. Rosborough says that mid-sum- mei* is the best time to poison trees. Pecan trees may not show much effect of the application of poison until the second season, but most other trees die a few weeks after application. Rosborough cau tions farmers to keep cattle away from areas where poison has been used until the trees have ceased oozing sap. This period usually lasts two to three weeks. A formu la for the poison and the method of mixing it may be obtained by writing to A. & M. College Exten sion Service at College Station. Rubber Plant Is Now on Full Scale Production at Dow Los Angeles.—(delayed by cen sor). — Officials of The Dow Chemical Company announced to day that full scale production had been achieved six weeks ahead of schedule in the first unit of its new styrene plant located here. Styrene is an essential ingred ient of Buna S. synthetic rubber and this plant is part of three manufacturing units of the Syn thetic Rubber Project. The second plant unit is being operated by the Shell Oil Company, which sup plies the other major ingredient, butadiene—the third unit is for the copolymerization process which is being carried out by the Goodyear and Firestone Rubber Companies. By locating these three plants side by side, it expedites production by enabling Dow and Shell to pump styrene and butadiene, respective ly, from their production units to the Goodyear plant where these ingredients are transformed into crude synthetic crepe rubber, which is later melted, compounded and fabricated into finished rub ber products. High praise is due both Dow plant design engineers and the construction company charged with the erection of the project for the sensational speed in carrying this plant from plans to full fledged production. This 15 million dollar unit was erected in less than 10 months. The original design for the plant involved two units and com pletion of the first unit with pro duction at near capacity is a tri bute to careful engineering and the long experience of Dow production men in both the complex mechan ical and chemical problems. Dow’s experience in the field of styrene dates back to 1936 when this chemical product was produc ed on a commercial scale at Dow’s main plant at Midland, Michigan. Incidentally, this new Los Angeles unit is the fourth plant, of this type, built by Dow. In terms of easing our critical rubber requirements, this new Los Angeles unit is producing suf ficient styrene each day to permit the manufacture of more than 14,- 000 passenger car tires. When, the second unit is brought into produc tion, which is scheduled for Aug ust, the total equivalent will be almost 30,000 passenger car tires per day or almost 11 million per year. An important point about this new plant is the utilization of a large number of regulating instru ments that enable the plant to operate almost automatically and also maintain extremely colse con trol on the quality of the finished product. Many of these instru ments are of special types design ed by Dow instrument engineers in cooperation with well-known pre cision instrument manufacturers. With the completion of this plant, together with Dow’s other producing facilities, this company has taken a leading role in the American production of Styrene so essential to our synthetic rubber program. Kuykendall, ’41, Is Taking Training PECOS, Texas, June 29—First Lieutenant Jim L. Kuykendall, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Kuykendall of Cherokee, Texas, has arrived at the Pecos Army Air Field here to take his basic training as a stu dent pilot. Before he entered the army, Lt. Kuykendall was a stu dent at the Texas A. & M. College, where he graduated in 1941. Dictionaries tell that antima cassar is a head rest. Those anti- Macassar raids are dispensing headaches. LISTEN TO WTAW 1150 kc Tuesday, June 29 11:25 a.m. Today’s Summary on the Home Front. 11:30 a.m. Economics Department. 11:40 a.m. Dramatized News Event. 11:45 a.m. Chats to Texas Home makers. 11:55 a.m. News—Interviews. 12:00 a.m. Sign-off. Wednesday, June 30 6:02 a.m. Texas Farm and Home Program — TQN — Triple-A; Poultry—D. H. Reid. 11:25 a.m. Today’s Summary on the Home Front. 11:30 a.m. Treasury Star Parade. 11:45 a.m. Extension Program—A. C. Pratt, County Agent, from Navasota. 11:55 a.m. News—Interviews. 12:00 a.m. Sign-off. Thursday, July 1 6:02 a.m. Texas Farm and Home Program—TQN—Extension — Miss Winifred Jones. Governor Dewey’s suggestion that the West eat its pigs and provide its corn for New York cows seems to have been dismiss ed as bull. —DISTRACTIONS— (Continued from Page 2) that isn’t quite up to par, but will provide an evening’s entertainment for almost anyone. The very ver satile comedy team is this time cast is a pair of air raid wardens in an important city and have a arge time carrying out their job. The Lowdown: A definitely class “B” picture but with good comedy. Consumers discovered that there is no black market in green vege tables. When in Doubt About Your Eyes or Your Glasses Consult DR. J. W. PAYNE Optometrist 109 S. Main Bryan Next to Palace Theatre NEED A HAIRCUT — GET ONE TODAY — KEEP NEAT and MILITARY Visit the AGGIELAND BARBER SHOP North Gate Quality is a Saving A good lesson to know is that Quality is a saving—things that you need and use are of little use to you unless that can “take it!” Get your better quality merchandise at The Exchange Store—an Aggie Institution. PRICE QUALITY VALUE for SCHOOL NEEDS use the EXCHANGE We have a complete line of uniforms, belts, shoes, and other accessories, as weU as books, lamps, school supplies, college jewelry and other items that will make your school year a success. 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