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» 1 ROOM 5, ADMINISTRATION BLDG.—2275 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1943 VOLUME 43—NUMBER 21. Stripling Elected as First Semester Yell Leader Holidays for Aggies Here Are Rapidly Approaching Students Asked to Wait Until After Noon On 23rd and Return by Mid-Night on 26th With only eight and one-half days between now and the beginning of the mid-semester holidays, Aggies are making plans for trips to their homes or to nearby recreation cen ters in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, and other cities in this vicinity. These holidays which came from the meeting of the executive com mittee were unexpected by the Corps, and it is only right that they should abide by the time they set for the holidays to begin. This is the first time that the Aggies have had mid-semester holidays, and it is the hope that everyone will leave at the time set and not before. The executive committee was good enough to give the Aggies a few days off; this should make the Corps appreciate them more. The mid-semester holidays, which will begin at noon on Friday and will continue until mid-night Mon day, will include not only the Ag gie students but also the faculty and College personnel and clerical workers, except where there is an overlapping in the teaching staff of the various branches stationed on the campus. Grove to be Scene of Prom Saturday Night The Grove will be the scene of another juke box prom Saturday night at 8:30. Everyone on the campus is invited to be on hand when music from records begins. As in the past, Aggies and service men with their dates will be ad mitted free. WOOD FLIES TO WAR In addition to its countless other war uses, wood is used to make laminated, molded plywood used in the great cargo gliders now be ing towed across the Atlantic to carry war materials to our fight ing fronts. Intramurals By Bob Orrick Hats off today to the members of the 8th Co. They hail from the third and fourth stoops of Leggett and right now they are, probably the hottest team in the intramural race. At any rate they’re hot enough to be the only soft ball team in League A to have an un defeated record and on top of that they are in a tie with the Band for first place in their tennis league. Last week they beat C Co. 17 to 0 and came back the next day to beat E Co. 18 to 1. Their soft ball team is composed mainly of Swatzell, Carter, Drake, Stotzer, Patton, Schrodds, Pelmer, Salinas, Saldan, Ross, and Craig. However, up to this point, whatever combi nation they have put on the field has brought results. They arte the team to beat. Broodo, Lowman, and Henry col lected six runs between them as 5th Co. beat 1st HQ 12 to 2. . . 3rd HQ 9, 4th HQ 5 . .. .1 Co. 7, 2nd Co. 7. . . . 2nd Co. came from behind in the fifth inning to score tying run. Rosmarin and Rey nolds came through with home runs for the 2nd Co. News from Penberthy’s office is that the badminton, handball, tennis, golf, and ping pong tourna ments are in the near future. There will be doubles and singles competition in everything but ping pong. Entries for these events must be made at the P. E. office by tonight. Everyone should be sure to get their entry in before the P. E. office closes tonight. Red Cross Meeting To Be Held Tonight On Main in Bryan Welty, Duckwork, Doig, And Hill Will Speak At Brazos Co. Rally A special Red Cross rally will be held in Bryan tonight at 8 o’clock, it was anrfeunced today. This rally will not be for the pur pose of raising funds, but the va lue of the Red Cross to the armed forces and dependants of service men will be emphasized. The meet ing will be held on Main Street be tween 25th and 26 th streets and this area will be roped off to traf fic for the gathering. The meeting was called for the reason that the efforts of all citizens are needed in the Red Cross program, and it is hoped that the get-together will result in a great er measure of co-operation. Talks will be made by Col. M. D. Welty, commandant of A. & M., Col. Joseph B. Duckworth, com mander at Bryan Army Air Field; Lr. Comdr. John H. Doig, com manding the navel units at the college; and Capt. Sam B. Hill, commanding the ACTD program at college. Judge A. S. Ware of Bry an will preside. Prior to the program a concert by the Bryan Field band will be presented. Rampus Kapers to Feature String Band on Program “Ches. Chambers and his Ag- gieland Ramblers” will be the feature attraction on the Kampus Kapers Saturday Service Show Saturday night at 6:15 p.m. This new musical organization was or ganized by Hal Clark and Cham bers. After all the practicing they have done, it should be pretty good. Vocals are done by Hal Clark, Alais Roy Accuff, Jr. It is report ed he can really yodel it out. This is an entirely different type of music on the campus and should be interesting and relaxing to all who care for that kind of music. The “Ramblers” staff includes such prominent characters as For est Howard, and Bill Jordan on the fiddle, Aidney Prescott on the sax, Sergio Zunica harmonica, and Buddy Loose playing the guitar. These boys special in playing songs right out of the hills. Lets all, go I down and see what they can do. This new band should prove to be good. Intramural Entries In Tournaments Must Be in Office Friday 6 The Physical Education Depart-' ment announces that all entries l for the coming tennis, badminton, j handball, golf, and ping pong tour- j naments must be in by 6 p. m. Fri day. All Aggies who are interested must report at the gym not later than that time so that their names can be entered as participants, ac cording to W. L. Penbarthy. It is urged that everyone who can enter any of the above tournaments so that competition can be given to all. J. B. Grantham ★ ★ ★ Grantham Is New Head of Research The appointment of J. B. Grant ham, Lufkin, as chief of the di vision of forest products research has been announced by Director W. E. White. Grantham fills the posi tion left vacant by E. W. Stark, who recently accepted a place with Purdue University. Mr. Grantham has been research technician at the Lufkin laboratory since 1941. His previous experience included work with lumber com panies in New York and Washing ton. He taught forestry for four years at Virginia Polytechnic in stitute, and received his own tech nical forestry training at the Uni versity of Washington and New York State College of Forestry. Forest products research is the newest division of the Texas For est Service, created by the Legis lature in 1940 for the purpose of finding new uses for Texas woods, reducing woods waste and helping to improve methods of manufactur ing forest products. Under Mr. Grantham’s direc tion the following main projects are being developed: A study of mesquite to deter mine additional uses for it; making plywood from red gum to test at A. & M. College for strength prop erties in connection with aircraft construction; making plastics out of pine sawdust and mill waste; pretreating green oak and gcr lumber with urea and then kiln drying it to develop a faster meth od of drying hardwood lumber with less checking and warping; determining physical properties of slash pine grown in the state as a basis for i-ecommending the plant ing of this out-of-state tree to Texas landowners. WOOD VERSUS COAL A cord of dry oak or hickory has the heating value of a ton of soft coal, according to the U. S. Forest Service. Green wood has only half the heat-producing value of dry wood. Water Mains Will Be Cut Off Until Repairs Are Made Conditions of Mains Make Repairs Needed At Once on Campus College Station residents are reminded that due to the water conditions, the mains must be turn ed off for repairs that must be at tended to at once. All mains in the city, regardless of the size, must be turned off. All residents are asked to please be patient while this repair work is going on. The signal for the residents when the city is going to turn the water off will be to turn the mains off for 20 minutes and then turn it on for 10 minutes to enable re sidents to get a supply of emer gency water. This will be the sig nal for all residents, but business houses will be notified by phone. Due to the number of houses that would have to be called, the paper is the most advisable way of noti fying. All water mains will be cut off, but the six and eight size mains will not be turned on as will be the others because the amount of water that will be lost when the mains are turned on again would be enough for the whole city. The water mains will be turned on as soon as repairs are made, and it is advisable to use water for only absolutely necessary needs while repairs are being made, L. D. Smith said when he made the above statements yesterday. It is again asked that the residents be patient during these operations. Paving Delayed By Rains On New Highway Paving on the new double lane highway from the North Gate to the Houston highway will begin as soon as weather permits. Equip ment is in order and as soon as the road bed dries sufficiently to permit pouring, the concrete will be laid. The contract calls for pav ing all the road from the North Gate to the Houston highway and the road to Bryan to the. City limits. Engineers in charge of the construction estimate it will take approximately two weeks to com plete the job. Every day that is lost due to inclinement weather will deffer completion that much. The road will be double lane from the highway and out from Bryan up to the Post Office at the North Gate. From the signal light on west, the road will be a single lane and will be retopped with a new coat of asphalt. Notice to College Station Residents Residents of College Station are authorized to use water only for such purpose as nec essary to save gardens; flower beds, or. lawns. The hours that water may be used for these purposes are between the hours of 8:00 and 8:30 p.m. only. This is by order of the Com mandant’s office, and it should be obeyed until further notice. Notice will be printed in the paper when this order is dis continued. Plans Are Complete For Guion Magic Show Julv 24-25 Plans have been completed for the presentation of the Scheetz and Company magic show on the stage of the Guion Hall Theatre on the campus Saturday and Sun day, July 24 and 25, according to announcement made this week by Tom Puddy, manager of the en tertainment house. Scheetz and Company enjoy a nation-wide reputation as enter tainers in the art of magic and will bring to the stage of the Guion many new illusians and feats of magic. Even though most of the stu dents in the Aggie division of the College will be away on mid-semes ter holidays at the time of the presentation of this novel and en tertaining stage show, servicemen and trainees stationed on the cam pus will be afforded the pleasure of seeing this most excellent per formance. Plans for the show include four performances daily, two at the matinee shows and two at the evening shows both days of the engagements here, it was stated. The stage attraction will be pre sented in connection with the cinema presentation billed for those two days. Church Group Asks For Curfew Ruling Requesting a curfew law for Bry an, a recommendation drawn up by the Executive Committee of the Women’s Missionary Society of the First Christian Church of Bry an was presented to that body Monday afternoon in regular meeting, according to an announce ment made this week. The recom mendation is to be presented to the Mayor of Bryan and asking that action be taken. The recommendation requested that boys and girls under 17 years of age and unescorted women be prohibited from being on the streets of Bryan after 10 o’clock at night. Broodo Loses Election by Vote Count of 259 to 159 Number of Votes Cast in Second Election Very Small to Number in Student Body Hayes F. Stripling was duly elected as first semester yell leader to assist Jack M. Knox who was elected in the first election held last week. Stripling defeated Archie Brood in the run-off election which was held ★ ★ ★ Hayes F. Stripling who defeat ed Archie Broodo in the yell leader run-off election held Tues day. -fTuesday. There were 420 votes cast with Stripling polling 259 and Broodo polling 159 to leave a comfortable margin of 100 votes in Stripling’s favor. Two votes were thrown out because of inac curacy on the part of two of the voters. The vote count of 420 compared to the 527 votes that were cast in the first election was not enough to show that the Aggies have any interest in the affairs of the Corps. A much greater interest is hoped for when yell practices real ly get underway, and the Aggie spirit is instilled in the Corps. It has been decided by the Stu dent Elections Committee that the second semester yell leader who is Knox will be in the positon as that of head yell leader. The first semester yell leader, Strip ling, will assist in position of as sistant yell leader. Record-Breaking Cows Are Contained In A. & M. Dairy Herd The Holstein-Friesian Associa tion of America on July 10 an nounced that two registered Hol stein-Friesian cows in the dairy herd of the Texas A. & M. College have recently completed a new re cord for butter fat and milk pro duction. The highest producer, Agtex Paulantha Walker, has a record of 539 pounds of butterfat and 16,017 pounds of milk which is nearly three times the output of the average dairy cow in this nation. This record was made in 365 days including three milkings daily at the age of five years and 9 months. Agtex’s close second was Posch Paulantha Banche, another high producer, who gave 508 pounds of buttterfat and 15,204 pounds of milk in 306 days on three milkings daily at the age of 4 years and three months when she began her test period. Aerial View Of A. & M. Slide-Rule Conscious Aggie Figures Length Of Time Until July 23 Time is definitely of the essence! One time-conscious Aggie (pro bably an engineer) took time out to figure how long it will be un- I til the mid-semester holidays ac tually begin, with the following re sults. If you can live long enough J the holidays will begin in 734,000 seconds, 12,240 minutes, in 204 | hours, or eight and one-half days. In any event, classes, drills, CQ, study periods, meals, and other I routine will continue until Friday at noon. A&M Entomologist Discusses Uses Of BeesWax in War War is a glutton for raw ma terials. It wants more or less of practically everything made by man and nature, even a rather obscure product like beeswax. Bees wax has been found to be an ex cellent ingredient for making coatings for fighting planes, lub ricant for shells, and for many other purposes in the military forces. Before the war began a sub stantial part of the beeswax used in the United States was import ed. But since most of this supply no longer is available domestic beekeepers have been asked to make up the shortage. Dr. H. G. Johnson, entomologist for the A. and M. College Exten sion Service, suggests that one big opportunity to get more wax is to save all of the odd bits which ordinarily go to waste. For exam ple, beekeepers should scrape all of the burr combs from the frames when honey is being extracted—in fact, scrape the wax from every thing about the hive, and save every bit of comb no matter how small. A further supply may be ob tained by culling out the poorest comb in ten, along with combs which have large patches of drone cells. The drone cells are good only for storage, and are last to be filled. While culling, Dr. Johnson adds, weed out crooked and brok en combs and any combs which have been chewed by mice. Replace them with sheets of foundation to obtain betler built combs during this year’s flow of honey. Culling will not seriously cut production of honey. In addition, say Dr. Johnson, culling is a paying practice at any time. With good worker combs the bees can work more efficiently, I the hives have fewer drones to feed, and the worker bees are less likely to swarm. And with wax bringing 41^4 cents a pound cash, culling also pays for the time it takes. The wax may be sold to bee keeping supply dealers, and is a T- , valuable contribution to needed ^owever, i was stated that the war materials, Dr. Johnson nearly completed and . World Premier Still Has No Definite Date For Showing Here According to announcement made today no further information is available on the release date of the Aggie movie “We’ve Never Been Licked” nor the date when the world premier will be held at Kyle Field: This picture of A. & M. includes the greater portiort of the 4,000 acre Campus. In the back ground can be seen Kyle Field, which has a seating capacity of 40.000, and the old entrance that leads to the front of Academic Building. The Administration building is the first building in the foreground. film was only a few shots remained to be I taken or retaken in the studios before the film was ready to be passed on by army and government censors. Soon after the technical work is completed and the censor ship has been ma^e, the release will be announced. says. Rationing of clothing has been announced as unnecessary by the WPB. Rural Mail Carriers meeting in Fort Worth recently, believe war will bring about common use of the helicopter on routes.