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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1944
New Device Used In
Plane Recognition
Ability to identify planes in
one-fiftieth of a second or less is
the basis for recognition training
of all Navy fliers, it was revealed
here today with announcement that
a peacetime General Electric de
velopment has taken war job in
side of the Navy’s new “flash pro
jector.”
The “projector” is a portable,
electrically timed film strip pro
jector which flashes images of
planes and ships, friendly or en
emy, on a screen. The images are
viewed from various angles, for a
split second, as a training pro
cedure to teach pilots to make
quick decisions in combat.
When Naval Personnel begin
aircraft recognition courses, the
length of time the projector’s
image remains on the screen may
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be set for several seconds. Eventu
ally cadets must identify correctly
images which appear for only a
fraction of a second.
One of the Navy technicians
who developed the projector, Lieut.
Alston Rodgers, USNR, before the
war was division engineer for the
G-E lamp department of Los An
geles. Lt. Rodgers combined a G-E
timing circuit originally used for
regulating equipment for welding
lamp bulb filaments with an elec
trically-operated shutter. And soon
the “flash projector” evolved,
using an ordinary 60-watt bulb as
a part of the timing circuit.
The projector is the size of a
small suitcase, and 1600 images
are contained in 100 feet of 35
millimeter film on a spool which
is a little larger than a package
of cigarettes. When the operator-
instructor actuates a switch se
lecting one of three different flash
intervals, the shutter opens and
allows the 300-watt projector to
throw an image on the screen.
It is also possible to operate a
lever which holds the shutter open,
if discussion of the picture is de
sired. A counter registers the
images so that a frame anywhere
on the film can be quickly posi
tioned by means of a convenient
crank. Detailed descriptions of
The library is trying to locate
Volume XXIII of Catalogue of
Birds, shipped from the British
Museum of Natural History. If
anyone on the campus received
this book by mistake please noti
fy Mrs. Sugareff, order libra
rian at the library.
each picture are listed in a loose-
leaf binder carried in the cover of
the case.
Nat’l Farm, Home
Hour Changed
The National Farm and Home
Hour, for more than 16 years a
nation-wide broadcast carrying
important agricultural information
to rural people, is to be^radically
altered, according to information
to Acting Director J. D. Prewit of
the A. and M. College Extension
Service from M. L. Wilson, nation
al director of Extension work,
Washington.
Effective June 19, the Depart
ment of Agriculture and the War
Food Administration will be drop
ped from the format except on
Saturday. The Saturday program
will be continued under the pres
ent name, and a five or six minute
period will be available to the De
partment for farm news or speak
ers. A similar period will be avail
able for homemaker information,
Prewit was advised. One feature
of the present program, the Fri
day Victory Garden broadcast, will
continue through July 28 and then
be dropped.
The name of the program Mon
day through Friday will be changed
to “The Homesteaders.” It will be
conducted without the Depart
ment’s participation by a master
of ceremonies who will give about
three minutes of farm news which
the network will gather on its own
initiative, along with items of spe
cial significance or importance fur
nished by the Department of Agri
culture.
From the beginning of the pro
gram, Director Wilson said, the
Extension Service found the Farm
and Home Hour an invaluable aid
in keeping farming people inform
ed on agricultural measures and
facts of vital general import. For
15 years, important phases of 4-H
Club work as carried on by 10,000,-
000 past and present 4-H members,
have been broadcast on this pro
gram the first Saturday of each
month. For several year sa similar
program was broadcast for and by
rural women taking part in home
demonstration work.
The National Farm and Home
Hour is broadcast 11:30 a.m. to
12 noon, Monday through Satur
day, by a national chain, and car
ried by several Texas stations in
cluding those at El Paso, Amarillo,
Austin, Waco and College Station.
Explaining the reason for the al
teration, the broadcasting company
said that too many city listeners
are not interested in the program
in its present form because of so
much farm emphasis.
Extensive Service
Nutritional Report
Increased war-time use of min
eral oil in salad dressings, salted
nuts, potato chips and doughnuts
may hav eserious nutritional con
sequences.
This concern is expressed by
Hazel Phipps of the A. and M.
College Extension Service who
cites nutrition research at state
experiment stations which have
shown that mineral oil robs the
body of at least two of the fat-
soluble vitamins necessary to
health and also of two important
minerals, calcium and phosphorus.
The American Medical Associa
tion also has issued a recent warn
ing against indiscriminate use of
mineral oil, Miss Phipps says. The
AMA statement says prolonged use
of mineral oil can interfere seri
ously with the absorption of Vita
mins A, D, and K by the body.
The specialist in food prepara
tion explains that because doctors
sometimes recommend mineral oil
for special diets, apparently many
people prescribe it for themselves.
4-H Club Girls Do
Large Salvage Job
Members of girls’ 4-H clubs in
Southeast Texas don’t wait for
“drives” to keep salvage collec
tions rolling. Recently the mem
bers of the Jane Long Junior 4-H
Club of Richmond, Fort Bend
County, disposed of 1,890 pounds
of waste paper which they had .
gathered from their own and the
homes of neighbors as a phase of
their war work. The transaction
added $13.35 to their club treas- v-
ury.
- Paralleling this, members of the . 5
Eagle Lake and G'ldiden clubs of
Colorado County searched out
over-age fountain pens in their .
communities. The Eagle Lake girls
publicized their campaign with
homemade posters in store win
dows and placed collecting boxes
inside the stores. The final count >
totaled 95 pens. The Glidden Club
members made a house-to-house
canvass and resurrected 30 pens
more or less out of service. Sal- 'h
vaged pens are reconditioned at v>l
Houston and distributed to soldiers
overseas.
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DENTIST
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Over Canady’s Pharmacy
Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas
FATHER'S
DAY
SUNDAY, JUNE 18th
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