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PAGE 8 THE BATTALION TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 11, 1944 Ph I s 1 \ e i 1 Champion Aggie Hitchhiker Brings New Five Hundred Girls Distance to Old Ride Thumbing Custom Attended Corps Ball By Stanley Gunn, in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram The world’s champion hitchhiker from Texas can now add New Guinea to his record. He is Keyes F. Carson, 28, of Cuero, who won national news attention several years ago by thumbing. Carson got into his hitchhiking method of locomotion while a stu dent at Texas A. & M. College and wound up as an organizer and pres ident of the United Collegiate Thumbers Association, with 4,000 members, including 2,000 Aggies. He elevated thumbing procedure to a professional basis, with such newfangled equipment as creden tials and reflectors. As president he gave neophyte members a mark to achieve by managing to travel 250,000 miles in six years—and at - LOUPOT’S Watch Doj? of the Agjries an average speed of 37 miles an hour. His first front-page publicity came when he thumbed his way to Washington to deliver a live turkey to President Roosevelt. Then he went on to greater ac complishments by traveling from coast to coast in four days. By this time hitchhiking was in his blood. Like some people play golf or marble machines, Carson enjoyed the recreation of a nice trip some where, just to see how fast he could do it. In 1941 he went inter national by hitching to Mexico City with another famed Cuero turkey, this one for President Camacho. I found Carson out here yester day, in officer candidate school. “I swore off hitchhiking after that trip7’ he said. “Then the Army got me.” The Army made him break hi's pledge. He was sent to New .Guinea as a sergeant in the Signal Corps and made a telegraph line maintenance chief. “They would call me anytime— two or three o’clock in the morn- DON’T DELAY Time Is Valuable Have Those Tires Recapped Come in today and let us make plans for recap ping your tires—don’t let them wear down too far— keep your car rolling and help with the war effort. CHAMPION TIRE & AUTO SUPPLY CO. Harry C. Dishman, Owner BRYAN MTHE JAFSf DO YOUR PART * BUY WAR BONDS According to announcements from the Student Activities Com mittee the dances which were held last weekend in Sbisa and in the Grove were very successful. Ex penses were well taken care of including compensation to the Ag- gieland Orchestra which played for the dance. Estimates place the attendance at the Corps Ball in Sbisa at about 1300 people while the dance at the Grove which was an all service dance only drew 800 fro- lickers. The Aggieland Orchestra played for both dances. According to figures from the room assignment sheets in Harry Boyer’s office about 300 girls spent the weekend in the two dorm itories reserved for guests. A check on the other housing faciilties around College Station brought the estimated total of visiting girls near the 500 mark. Plans are being made by the Student Activities Committee for a series of dances to be held throughout the summer. An nouncement of these will be made at a later date. ing—and tell me where a wire was down. I’d grab my tool sand start out. Lots of time my jeep would bog down and I would be stranded. So I would hitchhike a ride.” Revealing the secret of his tech nique to the world, Carson added, “It’s not any trouble to catch a ride, when you’ve got some tools or equipment of some kind.” On his travels at home, Carson carried a handbag with a built-in radio. ' “I carried it all over New Guinea with me,” he said. “It’s been in a lot of foxholes.” Carson found the New Guinea natives proficient in his art and he praised their finesse with pro fessional interest. “I didn’t have to teach them a thing,” he said. He resisted an impulse to or ganize a New Guinea branch of his thumbing association. His association back home had high standards. It was proud of its craft. All members signed lia bility release forms to give to driv ers and carried membership cards to prove their good standing. Carson kept complete records of his “patrol.” He rode in 6,681 cars and only three of them had flats. He never got wet and never was in an accident. After a year in New Guinea, Carson was chosen for officer training and if all goes well for him in this double-tough OCS he will be a second lieutenant in three months. Those gold bars will retire the world’s champion thumber. It ain’t legal for an officer. SERUM— (Continued from Page 7) “When a child has been stricken with diphtheria, antitoxin is the only treatment that will save his life. Also, to be effective, it must be given early in the illness and in large doses. Delay is usually caused by parents failing to realize that any sore throat may actually be diphtheria. It is al ways safer to immunize against the disease than to risk curing it.” Whats a matter Lieutenant doncha like makins Farm Labor Advisory Commtitee Will Meet A state Farm Labor Advisory Committee composed of farmers, recently set up to aid the A. and M. College Extension Service in determining policies affecting the farm labor program in Texas, will meet here July 17 and 18. Acting Director J. D. Prewit says the committee will advise with him and with another state labor committee composed of agency representatives which has been in existence for nearly two years. The agency committee members serve as technical advisors. Both groups will be asked to re view the entire farm labor picture in the state at the July meeting, Prewit says, and a representative from the Army’s Eighth Service Command will be present to confer on the use of prisoners of war for farm work. Jewish Problems Is Topic At Bryan USD Dr. Joachim Prinz, prominent scholar and lecturer will address a group of servicemen and civilians at Temple Freda, 205 S. Parker Ave., Bryan, on Saturday, July 22, at 6:00 p.m. Dr. Prinz will speak on “Post War Jewish Problems” under the auspices of the Bryan USO Club, the directors announce. Admission will be free to all. Dr. Prinz, Rabbi of Temple B’nei Abraha mof Newark, New Jersey, one of the largest Jewish congre gations in the United States, has been in this country for almost seven years. At the end of 1937, he was expelled by order of the secret police in Germany, and came to this country upon invitation of Dr. Stephen S. Wise. In the years 1938 and 1939, he travelled in hun dreds of cities on this continent. Since 1939 he is th eRabbi of Temple B’nei Abraham in Newark. Dr. Prinz, who received his Ph.D. at a German university and is a graduate of the oldest Rabbinical Seminary in Breslau, Germany, was the Rabbi of the Jewish com munity in Berlin. In his writings he is particularly concerned with the field of Jewish History and that of Jewish education. He is the author of a £reat number of books. He is the founder of the Jargest Jewish adult education institution in Germany, the Chaim Nachman Bialik College, and was a member of the Executive of the Zionist Organization of Germany. During the Hitler regime he was called upon to become the spokesman of German Jewry and it was in his book, “We Jews” that he tried to lay the foundation for a solution of the Jewish problem. It was be cause of his attacks against the German Government and his out spoken attitude against the regime that he was finally expelled from the country. A. B. CATHCART — DENTIST — Over Madeley’s Pharmacy South Gate - Phone 4-4724 MANHATTAN “T” SHIRTS AIWAYS TOPS Manhattan “T” Shirts are now available in whites . . . plain colors . . . . and stripes. Made of exceptionally fine cotton yarns . . . they’re styled manner. Choose several to fit in the Manhattan today. $1.00 to $1.50 flJaldropaff “Two Convenient Stores” College Station -o- Bryan -mi —V *