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PAGE 4 THE BATTALION SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 31, 1943 OFFICIAL NOTICES Classified LOST—Pair reading glasses in brown leather ease with name of optometrist— S. H. Laufer, New York City—embossed on case. Please return to H. R. Glassey, Y3c Navy Administration Office. Will be in market for seeing-eye dog if can’t be found 1 FOR SALE—A beautiful home near schools, large oak trees. Lot 120 ft. x 120 ft. Must be sold this week. $3,650.00. James W. James, City National Bank Bldg., 27065, Phone 2-8139. LOANED—A Sheafer fountain pin to someone in the commandant’s office Thurs day afternoon. Please return to Claude Stone, room 412, dorm. 17. Thanks. Announcements The President’s Office is holding a pack age containing two cans of Sherwin- Williams White Enamaloid, from the Sherwin-Wiliams Co. of Dallas. Will th§ department ordering this please call for it. The President’s Office has a package of Sal Amonica from Montgomery-Ward Co. Will the department ordering this please call for it. Distinguished Students: Citations from Doctor Walton are now available in the Registrar’s Office for those students who were distinguished during the Spring Semester. H. L. Heaton, Acting Registrar BRAZOS COUNTY A. & M. CLUB TO STAGE BARBECUE The Brazos County A. & M. Club will stage a stag barbecue Monday, August 2, 7:30 p.m., at the Bryan Country Club. The barbecue will be handled under the direction of George Long, a past master of feeding groups of Aggies. In order to prevent a waste of food, preparations will be made only for those who signify their intention of attending. Brazos Ex-Aggies are asked to phone “Jacko” Roberts be fore 10 a.m. Saturday if they have not already been contacted and if they wish to attend the barbecue. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH College Station, Texas Norman Anderson, Pastor 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School 11:00 a.m.—Morning Worship Sermon Topic: “Life’s Dreams’’ 6:30 p.m.—Young People’s League 7:30 p.m.—Evening Worship and Fel lowship. Morning services will be held in the Campus Theater and evening services on the lawn east of Guion Hall. If the .weather is unfavorable, services will be held in the YMCA Chapel. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, College R. L. Brown, Pastor C. Roger Bell, Ed. and Music 9 :45 a.m.—Sunday School 10 :50 a.m,—Morning Worship 1:30 p.m.—B. S. U. Council 4 :00 p.m.—Choir Rehearsal 6 :15 p.m.—Training Union 7 :15 p.m.—Evening Worship Wednesday evening — 7:30 p.m. — Mid-Week Prayer Service. Evening Vesper—Each evening at 6:30 o’clock. We invite students and service men to attend our services at their every oppor tunity. ST. THOMAS CHAPEL Episcopal The Rev. J. Hugh R. Farrell, Chaplain. Sixth Sunday after Trinity • Holy Communion 9:30 a.m. Coffee Club 10:00 a.m. Holy Communion 11:00 a.m. Children’s Vespers 7:30 p.m. AMERICAN LUTHERAN CONGREGATION Y.M.C;A. Chapel, Campus Kurt Hartmann, Pastor Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. Divine Service at 11:00 a.m. Lutheran Student Association devotion al meeting at 6:30 p.m. FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Bryan Corner 27th and S. College E. S. Bledsoe, Pastor Bible School 9:45 Communion and Sermon 11:00 Young People Meet 6:30 Evening Worship 7 :30 A special invitation to all service men to attend the fine class for young people at the Bible School hour, 9:45. ! LOUPOT’S j An Aggie Institution SiamiurL S H 0 EJj FOR MEN Buy your sport shoes with an eye to smartness and value. We promise you’ll be proud of Edger- tons. Tan and white or Two-Tone Tans. f j Taldrop & (8 “Two Convenient Stores” College Station Bryan i Bentley Explains Concrete Values Concrete floors in grain storage structures have the advantages of being rat proof and of providing a plentiful substitute for scarce building materials. According to M. R. Bentley, agricultural engineer for the A. and M. College Extension Service, concrete simplifies construction, solves the heavy load problem in grain storage, and makes it pos sible to keep the whole building lower since wooden floors for per manence should be at least two feet above the ground. Many farmers have hesitated to use concrete flooring in a grain bin or crib on account of the dan ger of it becoming damp and cau sing grain spoilage. Bentley recog nizes reason for such fear, because if the floor touches water or damp soil the top will be damp. In most locations, he explains, there is no difficulty in building a concrete floor which will remain dry. The essential factors in con structing a dry floor of concrete are to build it so that the under side will be at least four or five inches above the surrounding ground, and place a layer of gra vel or crushed rock at least four or five inches thick beneath the con crete. Moisture from the soil will not move up through gravel, crush ed rock, or similar materials as it will through soil. Bentley cautions, however, that in a few locations water may rise and come in contact with the con crete. In such cases some method of waterproofing the floor would be needed. If desired, concrete floors may be built high above the ground by using higher concrete foundation walls and a dirt fill. Prepare Child For School Cox Urges AUSTIN,—“Bs sure that your preschool child will be ready to go to school in September,” Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health Officer, ur ges the parents of all children who will respond to the school bells for the first time next fall. “If you have already done so, start now to prepare your child for the added strain of school life. “First and formist is the need for vaccination against smallpox. Parents and physicians should see that children are vaccinated before they are one year of age; the mat ter is entirely in the hands of pa rents and their doctors during the earliest years of life. At school age, however, vaccination becomes absolutely necessary. If your child has not been vaccinated, have it done immediately so that the scar will be completely healed before school opens.” Immunization against diphthe ria is also highly desirable, Dr. Cox believes. This disease, which causes serious illness and deaths among young children, can be pre vented with toxoid. The child who has never been protected should be given this safeguard against a dreaded disease. Even though he may have been immunized as a ba by, doctors and health officers usually recommend an additional dose of toxoid to strengthen im munity before entrance into school. “In addition, before you send your child to school you are urged to take him to your physician or to the nearest clinic for a complete physical examination,” Dr. Cox! adds. “You will want to know that he is in good physical condition and can compete with the other children on equal terms. If the check-up reveals any weakness or defect there will be time to build up his general health and correct defects before September. Don't let your child start his school life with any avoidable handicap.” Frog Stuff By Frog DuBose Not much happening* this week, fellows, but I will try to pass on a few little items of interest. I was sitting in mess the other day, fighting for existence, when I happened to get a gander at what looked like a barber’s field day. After inquiring into the matter, I found that the “head” was hook ed onto Frog Johnson, and that it was supposed to be what is com monly known as a “bowl” haircut but in his case they used a thim ble! Frogs Farinella and House cer tainly did have a good time while they were home over the holidays; it seems that they both did a good job of tearing up the family car. Details of the Farinella incident, or accident, or not clear, but it seems that Frog House grew tired | Target for Tonight To Be Shown Sun. “Target for Tonight,” described by Time Magazine as “far and away the best picture that has come out of World War II, is brought to the campus again and will be shown at the Assembly Hall at 4 o’clock on Sunday afternoon. The picture was made by an English film unit under the direc tion of Henry Watt. Its atmos phere, the quality of its action, its realism all bespeak the fact that it was made in England with members of the illustrious R.A.F. as the actors. The crew of six, whom we see in the film, had made, at the time of the shooting of the picture, 200 flights over Germany. Their names are not given, nor are any of the others in the film listed, but so familiar are they by now that they are easily spotted. There is Air Marshal Sir Richard Pierse, Com mander in Chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command; “Speedy” Pow ell, the blond, curly-topped wing commander, who led the first over- the-Alps raid on Venice; and the of the hi-way and decided to leave it for open country. He made up his mind on a curve, and proceed ed to jump a ditch, crawl under a fence, and smack a tree, all in the family car. Frog Philips and his date refused to take notice, and made the best of the situation. Frog Dickson, of dorm 16 has the well-known “reds” on a certain female tea-sipper down at Texas U. and he has just about decided to take a little trip down there to get that gal on the line, and from what I hear about the girls having the boys outnumbered 10 to 1, I think I would enjoy going with him! We’ve been reading quite a lot about Aggie courtesy on the hi- way, and it seems to me that no one, not even a Frog, would break down the tradition of showing coutesy to those who offer him transportation. All over the state the rule seems to be that if there are any rides to be had, the Ag gies will get them. If the people of Texas feel that way about us, then surely we should do all in our power to make ourselves worthy of that honor. These last two days have just been one big float-out. However, the boys of U.S.S. dorm 17 don’t seem to mind it a bit. This wet weather also seems to breed those little animals called the “Reds.” About the only good in weather like this is the dismissal of gym classes—everybody seems to agree on that. Oh, do I envy the guy that hauls out of his P.O. box those pastel colored envelopes that smell so sweet! One of the lucky dogs for today was Frog Bauer who got one of those lovely smelling mes sages. As a result, he walked on air all day, and whistled like a canary. Sharing the same glory was Frog Kaufman, that dashing Casanova who has not one, but two chickens on the string! Oh, he’s, a devil with the women, he is. About the most disgusted Frog in Dorm 15 is Frog Vickers, who wore Cavalry boots to P.E. think ing that he would go right in swimming; was he surprised, though, when we had to do exer cises and then run! He had an en tirely different idea about boots after that session! Say, dorm 16 has certainly quiet ed down lately. Could it be because of Frog Frazier’s absence? At any rate, it is much tamer than it used to be. , Frog Leasly on the “Rough and Rugged” (?) fourth stoop boasts of knowing quite a few girls here abouts. Let’s get out our little red books, boys, and make him talk. And while we are on the subject of girls, (and when aren’t we) let’s not forget to push that Fresh man Ball, fellows; just imagine all those beautiful girls running ’round loose on the campus! Frog Graham rates a pat on the back. While on his holiday “vaca tion” he managed to get a beauti ful new, 20-inch slide rule. Good work, Frog Graham. Frog Roper is all wrapped qp in a Tarleton woman. Not only does he like to be military, but he also wants his woman to be military too. Isn’t that right, Frog Roper? In closing, I would like to give instructions on How To Give a Girl a Surprise Party. Place arms around her, draw her close and start to kiss her. When she says (rather unconvincingly) “Please stop”, release her unkissed and take a look at the surprised look on her pan. And if that’s your idea of fun, brother, you can have it! Well, fellows, that’s about all for now (the man wants his type writer) but I will see you soon— I hope. rugged group Captain, a famed pilot, now grounded, who led the first raid on Sylt. The hero of the show, if one man may be singled out, is Flight Sergeant McPherson. He is one of the R.A.F.’s best nav igators; he belongs to that back ground of the pilot’s glory: the navigators, the gunners, the bom bardiers, and the radio operators. It is around him that the crisp, laconic humor of the film revolves. When the bomber is completely lost in thick, dark clouds the Cap tain says, “Hey, Mac, where are we now, as if you’d know?” Mac answers, “I ken find where we are. We’re approaching Karlruhe —famous for its breweries, you know.” “O.K.,” fires back the Cap tain, “Let’s go down and smell its breath.” The picture, which was three months in the making, gives suc cessfully every detail of a flight from the first discovery of the ob jective to the return of the last plane. The objective in this case is the formerly important town of Freihausen, Germany, which has been changed into an oil dump. Reconnaissance planes have re turned with a picture of it. Minute preparations are made; selection of the target, instruction of the chosen crews, arming, gassing, and readying the bomber. Then comes the take-off of the huge, black Wellingtons. We follow our crew of six in their planes called “F for Freddie,” across the channel, thru the suspense of finding and hitting their mark, and back to the base with their engine in trouble and theii; wireless operator wounded. There are many good shots, some of them actual service shots taken in line of duty. A particu larly effective one is of the Crew room after the bomber crews have dressed and gone, and another one is of the waiting men as they look silently through the dense fog for a sight of the returning bombers. — Hedge Happing — (Continued From Page 3) in the army for a couple of years and really knows his way around. Mr. Reith’s face would probably turn a delicate pink if he were to read something like the following in the paper, “what gentleman in academic flight 36, has so much confidence in himself that he’ll bet you he makes a lower grade on a‘ test than you do?” —LECTURER— (Continued from Page 1) years and missionaries were sent out on a world-wide evangelical program. During the 1840’s the church was divided due to disagree ment on the question of polygamy and a group led by Brigham Young moved to Utah and established a colony there and are commonly known as Mormons. Repudiating polygamy the remaining group was reorganized in 1860 with the founder’s son at its head, and have headquarters in Independence Mis souri. They number about 100,000 after the assassination of the founder by a political mob, in membership. The speaker for the lectures to be concluded Sunday night at the YMCA Assembly room has been for the past seven years a mission ary for the reorganized church in Mexico, Canada and United States and, according to those who have heard him, is a capable and effec tive speaker. College Station Man in Training Among the new trainees who have recently arrived at the Coast Artillery Replacement Training Center, Camp McQuaide, Califor nia, is Pvt. Frank A. Hollingshead of College Station. He will be stationed at Camp McQuaide for a period of 13 weeks, during which time he will undergo basic training for replacement du ty. He will be instructed in the va rious uses of the Coast Artillery weapons as well as physical hard ening, general military law and discipline. JEEP GRABS STEER. BUT FAILS AS SUB ROPING HORSE A steer can be roped from an Army jeep, but that four cylinders under the hood of the blitz buggy don’t substitute for a good roping horse. Ike Rude of Pawhuska, Okla., roped a loping longhorn from a jeep at the Cheyenne’s Frontier Days rodeo Thursday before 11,000 spectators, but when it came to busting the animal, the jeep might as well have been in Sicily. Attempting to circle the steer in order to trip him was too much, and Rude’s precious lariat parted. Former Student Is Raised in Rank BIG SPRING, Texas.—Lt. Earl L. Jones, base weather officer at the Big Spring Bombardier School, has been promoted from second to first lieutenant. Lt. Jones, son of S. L. Jones of 2013 N. Jackson, Palestine, attend ed Palestine high school, the Uni versity of Texas at Austin, Texas A. & M. College at College Sta tion, and U.C.L.A. at Los Angeles. He last worked for the U. S. Weather Bureau before his enlist ment in the Army. His wife, Mrs. Ann C. Jones, resides at the above address. Fish Tales By Bryan A. Ross Now that the Dean’s team is playing again, there will be a lot of sad and long faces for many of us. There were many Fish on the deficiency list including some of our best students. Many of us have made the lowest grades and averages that we have ever wit nessed. Some Fish had never made below a “C” until the current se mester. The most recent question that is being asked is, “What do you think is the reason for so many low grades?” Many answers have been given. Some think it is the hot weather, others believe it to be present and conflicting war time conditions. But nevertheless, some of the lowest grades of any Freshman class are being made right now. The slaughter is still going on. The second stoop is famous, you know, for its great wrestling matches. Fish “Abbie Springs” recently has been mauling his roommate, Fish Harrell, and vice- versa. Frosty Moore and Bill Reed were recently seen throwing Sloan’s Liniment on each other. The draft board spider web has finally caught Ray Wiley. That poor, innocent- Fish expects to be overseas in three months. We in the Air Corps Reserve think that Sheppard Field is the worst place on earth, but Ray is very definite on the belief that Camp Wolters is the most terrible. He says: “It can mean but one thing if I go to Wol ters, I’ll be a darned B.A.P. in the “paddlefeet.” Also on the expectant list are: Fishes Stuart Youngblood, Barton Wallace, Bin Ng, and Frosty Moore. This draft bait will prob ably be called before the end of the semester. Talking of the service, there’s been some hot arguments going around here in No. 14. They are usually conflicting opinions as to what branch of the service is the best, and are mostly between the Army Air Corps and the Naval Air Corps. So if you’d like to hear a good debate, just step around any time and you’ll hear one. A new addition to our many oddities around here is a radio station. Fish H. C. Chancellor, that E.E. “queer,” has. rigged up his own sending station. The other night we heard a voice coming out over the ether—“Hello, Aggies, how’s the Ole Army?” Flash! Latest news bulletin: Fred Manget (called “Maggots”) has finally gotten in the Air Corps. He didn’t want in it very badly, though; he’s just been talking about it for the last six months. If any more news on this boy comes in, we’ll let you know as soon as possible. It seems as if the Fish had a hard time of it over the holidays. By the way they dragged out to roll call, one would think they’d been out running the cross-coun try all night. Fish Bill Peterman has recently been praising North Side of Fort Worth. “Cowtown” has a very deep place in his heart, especially the stock yards. But every time he opens his mouth another voice rings out: “Toro Feces, Toro Fe ces!” If anybody can pass Analytics, please come up to see Fish Steven son, Fish Langston, Fish Sette- gast, and your columnist. We are queers in that subject, but queers the wrong way. We all hated to see Jack English leave us. But since he needs an operation to get in the Navy Air Corps, it would have been diffi cult for him to remain. We’re wishing you all the luck in the world, Jack, hoping that you get those wings of gold in a hurry. But don’t forget, we’re gonna come down pretty soon and help you get those little gals in Houston on the line. Ralph “Bud” Tipton, class of ’38, who is now advertising man ager and sports editor of the Jack sonville Daily Progress, was a vis itor on the campus Friday after noon. —MAD-CAPS— (Continued From Page 3) ners were rampant.—at least two didn’t take off their shoes and several left their socks on. —Per haps it was the presence of a cer tain officer.—How about that, Baines?—Lest we forget—Did you notice that the boys aforemention ed are Corporals???—Congrats. —Fitzpatrick, the guy that you ne ver did hear at Anchor Hall, was, to the amazement of everyone, quite happy—Poor guy, and he al ways looks so sad.—He said he now had everything he had ever wanted Corporal stripes, a fur lough, and a transfer—So is no longer unhappy—Quite a transition —Of course “Tyrone’ Powers was there and I had a constant fight on my hands to keep my chair— You see I was sitting next to my wife—The wolf—Humerickhouse, minus his two front ivories, was wolfing too, but then he used to be in the Navy—Just about that time the gin played out and so we called it a night.—Well, it was dark.—Bon Voyage, and happy flying fellows and send me the first Jap tooth you find. But please extract it first.—Good Luck and so long, andl know we’ll be hea ring from you. —MILNER— (Continued from Page 3) way. All Aggies should be inter ested in arousing again the once grand inter-school spirit between A. & M. and TSCW. If a large group of Aggies take a few min utes time, the majority of the Ag gies will benefit. I have written an open letter to the editor of the TSCW paper in hopes that some TSCWites would start that idea again, so the girls at TSCW will be prepared when the letters start arriving. How about it, Army? It can’t cost you but a stamp and a little time and CAN turn out to be fun. Someone decided they needed another pencil because they took Brian Duke’s black Sheaffer with a military clip and gold band on it. Duke will need this pencil if he is to continue making “A’s”. Please return. Back to news about Milner. The Milner terror is no more. Bill (the giant killer) Brough had enough guts to call the bluff of the chief buddybud of Milner’s dewdrops. Flowers to you, Bill. Jack Knox, head yell leader says that he’s try ing had to get a yell practice, but with the recent change in officials, he doesn’t know just how soon we will be able to have one. Don “Chest” Howard wants anyone in terested in body building to come and see him, Room 30. Jimmy Eng seems to do pretty good with that ten pound dumbbell. You ought to watch that dumbell Howard though. More glimpses around the dorm. Curtis packing. Henry wondering whether to start packing or not. Graf carrying some papers. Gib bons—no better not say it. Scotty wearing a beautiful red tie. John son, Shapiro and Duke always to gether. Bottom floor nearly 100% on the dean’s team. Sure is quiet down there lately. Several bull sessions, all stale. Well, I’ll stop boring you. Remember to write your box at TSCW and for gosh sakes keep speaking to peo ple. Although I’m an engineer, I’m sure the engineers will find them selves laughing at the following by an Aggie’s woman: God made up all kinds of men, Doctors, lawyers, priests, and then, The devil stepped in and strip ped the gears To turn out guys called “engi neers.” So long, Army. Beat the hell out of Texas. —ENGINEERS— (Continued from Page 2) makes little Nero and Bosom Pal very unhappy indeed as they are both very thirsty on Saturday nights and there is nothing to drink in the room except water. So they inform Kentucky Pat that they will have nothing to do with the type of person who would call attention to a little thing like not being in a room. So you can see why I am most surprised in deed to see Little Nero and Ken tucky Pat become ever loving bud dies and I am so surprised that I fumble and Moo-Bishop out- reaches me and get two bottles of milk a beverage that Moo-Bish op is very fond of indeed. DR. N. B. McNUTT DENTIST Office in Parker Building Over Canady’s Pharmacy Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas j LOUPOT’S | Trade with Lou — He’s right with you! DYERS-FUR STORAGE HATTERS moncan. r 2-1565 m 214 SOUTH MAIN BRYAN, TEXAS Hey, You— There’s no argument about it—Lou’s wanting to buy books on the whoelsale market, so if* you have some that you don’t need, just bring them in. Also if you have drawing instruments, slide rules, etc., that are no longer of use to you, Lou will pay you top prices. Our guarantee—if we buy something from you and you find that you can get a higher price for it elsewhere, we’ll sell it back to you at just what we pair for it. That’s fair, isn’t it? AGENTS FOR POST DRAWING EQUIPMENT LODPOT'S “Trade With Lou — He’s Right With You”