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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1944)
C/J ^ C/J PAGE 4 THE BATTALION THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 29, 1944 A tl si tl 11,668 Dressings Made Last Week; Will Fill Quota With 11,668 surgical dressings completed last week, women of Brazos county volunteering at the Red Cross work rooms at College Station and Bryan, believe they will be able to fill the surgical dressings quota assigned this county by the War Department, if the number of workers during the remaining five weeks holds up. Despite the heat wave that has gripped the county, 326 women registered for work last week. This was an increase of 27 over the number reporting the preced ing week. The heat wave, how ever, has been a touchy subject as several have remarked that it is not hotter than it is where these dressings will be used on wounded American boys. Only 123 women reporting for work in the surgical dressing room the first week in June turn ed out 4,243 completed dressings. Then the great need for these dressings was impressed upon the women of Brazos county, with a plain statement from Red Cross headquarters that unless the June-July quota of 52,200 dress ings was met the work rooms would be closed. Appeals through local papers and also from friend to friend stepped up the workers to 229 the second week, with an output of 12,047 dressings. In the past three weeks 27,958 4x4 dressings have been made, ac cording to the records of Mrs. Betty Howard, county surgical dressing chairman. This leaves 17,042 4x4’s and 7,200 4x8 , s to be made by July 31st. As these vol unteer workers become more ex perienced their weekly output is expected to increase. Both workrooms are in need of enameled corset stays and women having them are urged to bring them to the College Station unit, at 413 Throckmorton, or to the Bryan unit at Carnegie Library. The ones now in use are worn and rough. These stays are used in folding and smoothing the gauze. Stays ' covered with paper are not usable. Mrs. R. S. Hopkins, Jr., is chairman of the College Station room, and Mrs. F. H. Wilson of the room in Bryan. Both rooms are open from 9 a.m. through 5 each week, and from 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday and Thurs day. Extension Agents To Take Part In Refresher Courses Men and women county Exten sion agents, assistant agents, and state and county emergency war food assistants from 245 Texas counties joined members of the headquarters staff of the A. & M. College Extension Service for a three-day wartime conference on the College campus June 26. More than 500 Extension workers at tended. The visitors were housed in the College dormitories. According to Acting Director James D. Prewit, the conference is designed as a refresher for the field force through individual and group discussions of wartime problems growing out of the ex traordinary production of agricul tural crops, food conservation, la bor and farm machinery shortages and kindred matters. Demonstra tions in various phases of Exten sion work will be conducted by specialists at four of the six half day sessions. Normally, the field and headquarters personnel meet in conference yearly, but it was omitted in 1943 on account of the war emergency. THE A. & M. PHOTO SHOP is pleased to announce that in addition to their regu lar fine portrait and commercial photography, they have added a complete stock of supplies for AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS f'jr the convenience of the students and personnel ox the college and this vicinity who are interested in amateur photography. We have the largest and most complete stock of this type in this area, featuring the Eastman and Ansco brands, and including Flash Bulbs Film Packs Cut Film Bulk 35mm Film Enamel and Rubber Developing Trays (any size) Toners White Rubber Print Rollers Squeegie Boards (all sizes) We invite you to inspect our stock and supply your needs . . . and REMEMBER, for the finest studio portrait work, we invite you to use the facil ities of our shop. A. & M. PHOTO SHOP North Gate Next Door to Kelley's NORTON MAKES POST-WAR PLANS FOR A. & M. AND THE FIGHTIN’ AGGIES Come peace again, football un der supervision and training rules of the athletic department at Tex as A&M College will be available for every boy in school who wants to play, instead of just the 45 to 60 of the first string, if Head Coach Homer Norton can have his way. At least, that is what Norton tells you when you inquire as to facts and figures on the prospects for his 1944 crop numbering over 150 leans and fats and shorts and tails, who now are hard at it each afternoon under a heavy Texas sun in preparation for a gruelling season embracing eleven games without a breather among them. “I can’t tell you what we’ll do for I don’t know myself,” Norton declares. “We do have a lot of boys out there, about 10 per cent of the student body. Some of them look pretty good right now but I have no assurance that any of them will be in school by September. Some are right at 18 and their draft boards may get them before we have our first game. Some tell me they are 4-F but the services have changed their requirements and may do so again. “The needs of the Army and the Navy come first and if they want any of these boys they are going to take them, and there is nothing we would do about it if we could. When they do go they will be bet ter soldiers and sailors on account of the general basic training in fitness we have given them during the little time we have had them out for practice.” Getting back to Norton’s plan or vision. In the summer of 1943 he was troubled as he watched all his 1942 squad and all his fine fresh man team of the preceding season go into the services. Of all the boys who had been out for spring train ing, only four were around at opening game time, and the irony of it all was that some of his most promising material were in various branches of the services that were training at school Texas A&M had to meet later on. Glowing accounts (See AGGIES, Page 5) Used Cars Wanted We pay cash for any make or model used car. Brazos Motor Co, STUDEBAKER DEALER At the “Y” - Ph. 2-7009 Your Name Engraved Free! You boys who have purchased K. & E. Drawing- In struments from Loupot may have your name engraved FREE in 24 kt. Gold by presenting your purchase slip at Lou’s. Bring in your sets with your purchase slip and we will be very glad to engrave your name—AND RE MEMBER, IT’S ABSOLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE. These leading sets of drawing instruments, the K. & E. Brand, sell reasonably, $16.00 to $18.00 sets for only $14.50 $26.00 to $29.00 sets for only $22.00 ---THANKS--- Loupots Trading Post “Trade With Lou—He's Right With You”