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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 1, 1944
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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.
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