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PAGE 4 THE BATTALION FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 1, 1944 Si IE I leg doi wh is the cli< a i in| CO] sei do la? in re gi m Exes Open Drive For Collections On 2 Developments Broadening its objective to in clude $25,000 for a “Gold Star Stu dent Aid Fund” for the 1945 Devel opment Fund formally opened its campaign today. Still included as the major objective of the fund is the Student Activities Center (Un ion Building), to be built on the campus as a memorial to all A. & M. men who have served in the armed forces of their country. Ob jectives of the fund were determ ined by the Executive Committee Former Student On Torpedoed Ship Lieut, (jg) Sam T. Logan, U. S. N. R., '34, of Muleshoe, Texas, is aboard a Liberty ship which was torpedoed while carrying soldiers and war cargo to the Normandy beachhead, according to the Navy public relations office at New Or leans. The Liberty ship was forced to turn back with some 200 casual ties among the invasion troops, Lieut, (jg) Logan related at the Armored Guard Center at New Or leans, to which he recently re turned. Lt. Logan was aboard the ship as commander of the Navy gun crew when the recent attack took place. A single well-aimed torpedo found its mark among the inva sion-bound soldiers, at the same time setting fire to the vessel and rendering it unable to proceed un der its own power. The flames were brought under control and the vessel was towed back to the English coast, where it was beached and the cargo dis charged. “The blast from that lone torpedo was terrific,” Logan said, “and the soldiers in the section of the ship struck had a pretty rough time of it.” Prior to being commissioned De cember 15, 1942, the Armed Guard officer was employed as agricul tural agent by the Extension Serv ice of Texas A. and M. College, from which he graduated in 1934. He won track letters at Texas A. and M. in 1932, J 33, and ’34, and was a member of the Saddle and Sirloin Club there. He was president of the Rotary Club and of the Lions Club at Muleshoe, and had also been a member of the National Livestock Judging Team. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe F. Logan, live at Sonora, Texas, and his wife, Marjorie, and their daughter, Rose, make their home at Muleshoe. A. & M. Alteration Shop North Gate Don’t wait! If your clothes need altering, have it done now—for comfort and looks. All Work Guaranteed of the Association, under the authorization of the Association’s Board of Directors. The Gold Star Student Aid Fund will be established to provide fi nancial assistance in the years to come for the education of children of A. & M. men who have given their lives to their country in the armed forces. This obpective was suggested by these widely sep arated men. A. C. Taylor, ’24, Spartanburg, S. C., Lt. Wm. A. Cozart, ’38, from “somewhere in England”, and from the Madison, Wise., April 21 Muster upon the suggestion of Major W. T. Bru ton, ’33 and Capt. Edwin D. Mar tin, ’27. Another $50,000 is expected to be added to the Memorial Student Activities Center by the 1945 De velopment Fund before it closes its books next May 31. War bonds totaling $132,000 have already been presented to the College for this purpose by the gifts-of A. and M. men to the Fund in its first two years of operation. In a message to A. and M. men, Association President Rufus Pee ples, ’28, Tehuacana, challenged ten thousand others to join him and get the Development Fund job out of the way in September. He pointed out that by so doing future class letters could be devoted en tirely to class news, that the As sociation would have the time of its officers, directors and employ ees for other work, and that every man would feel a real satisfaction in knowing that a big job had been done with dispatch. “Let’s lay it by this month,” he challenged, “Or am I too optimistic?” Wood Is Invaluable To Army In War Time Wood is playing an increasingly important role in the war as our forces advance farther into enemy territory Joseph C. Kircher of At lanta, Southern Regional Forester of the United States Forest Serv ice, said today. Invasion fleets are followed by shiploads of lumber to repaid docks and make captured points habit able,, it was pointed out, in em phasizing the need for increased timber production. Urging Southern farmers to pro duce timber from their own wood lands with their own labor, teams, tractors and trucks during the slack crop season, Mr. Kircher said, “they can increase their cash in come and partly overcome the lab or shortage by helping to cut saw- logs and pulpwood and operate sawmills.” By working in the woods during the slack season, farmers and their hands will find profitable employment, it was stated, “and they will be making a great con tribution toward winning the war.” Most kinds of timber are bring ing peak prices, making produc tion of this vital war material profitable to timber owners and woods workers. Timber produced from farm wodlands with the labor and trans portation facilities a farmer can use in logging during slack sea sons “would go a long way toward relieving shortages in manpawer and material.” Wood was declared to be as vital a war material now as steel and aluminum and even more scarce due to the shortages of manpower able to do woods work. Picturing an invasion, Kircher said wood was required to make most of the equipment from air planes to gun powder and gas masks. “As an invasion fleet ap proaches a beach, we see a battle ship, apparently all steel. But it isn’t all steel. From 300,00 to 500,- 000 board feet of lumber is in its decking, gun mounts and other construction.” High powered little mosquito boats, plywood craft arm ed with torpedo tubes and machine guns that make sudden hit and run attacks on large rships of the enemy, require 33,000 board feet of lumber. As the doughboy goes ashore he carries a rifle with its stock made of wood. From pulpwood come the high explosives used to clear the enemy from his path. And over that path he trudges his way in shoes that owe their origin partly to America’s blight-killed chestnut trees which furnish tannic acid used in leather manufacture. The bomber that blasts the way £or the soldier may- have been ship ped to an intermediate point before the invasion in a case that took 5,000 board feet of lumber. The fighter planes that stab the enemy and keep him away from the in vasion coast contain some wood and the parachutes of their crews are made from rayon whose source is wood. On the heels of the fleet that brings the doughboy to the coast are shiploads of lumber. Each Lib erty ship supporting an invasion requires ten carloads of dunnage lumber to hold in place its cargo of supplies which in turn are pack ed in wooden crates and paper- board cartons. It takes 300 feet of lumber to crate the doughboy’s initial supplies and it requires 50 feet of lumber each month he is across to keep him supplied. Farm woodlands contain timber that can be used i crating which represents about one-half of the lumber requirements for the year. Tha tis one of the reasons farmers are being called on the produce timber. —AERO— (Continued from pag« 1) the department and T. R. Spence, manager of construction depart ment of the college traveled to Langley Field last October and in spected the six wind tunnels there. Pinkerton and Simpson, and Simp son’s assistant, M. J. Gerhardt of San Antonio, who worked on the design with Simpson, visited the wind tunnels at Los Angeles, in the North American Aviation Co., Northrop Aviation Co., and two tunnels at the California Institute of Technology. Spence inspected the tunnel at Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology. As a result of this careful planning, the A. & M. tunnel will eventually embody the best and most ‘modern ideas in tunnel design. With the construction of the later sections of the tunnel this can be operated at pressures rang ing from one-fourth to four times an atmosphere. The work on the tunnel will start in about three weeks and is ex pected to be completed in about five months. It will be a high speed, low and high presure tun nel of the latest design. —LONGHORN! — (Continued liom page 1) zations, snapshots of campus ac tivities and others. Plans are being considered by the staff for students who pur chase the Longhorn, to make the payment as part of the Student Ac tivities fee, preceding the semes ter the Longhorn is issued. Ap proximate cost of the Longhorn will be five dollars. A goodly num ber of men are expected to pur chase the yearbooks, since this will be one that they will want to have. DO YOUR PART—BUY BONDS LOUPOT’S Trade With Lou — He’s Right With You! A LL NAIL THE FROM ^ . AMD <> us ^ HEADdCHES- TO ADD ■ - JPPip NERVOUS MEC/ft To CW/4NGE US AU- ^ -rWEVRE YV/r// us MIGHT AND t?AN ^ C^ T5 USB— rHEy'RR / 0 <? SLO* ° ALL MAIL ■ft t'. </. rw'5 1 i V t «• AN / A rjjv. WAUctf'*! Haug htV !