THE BATTALION
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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 5, 1944
The Lowdown On
Campus ‘Distractions
By Alfred Jefferson
Guiords Wednesday and Thurs
day offering is to be < Tceland’ ,
starring Sonja Henie, John Payne,
Jack Oakie, and a large number of
skaters. It is built on the same lines
as her usual pictures, lots of beau
tiful women, and plenty of skating
specialties. The story concerns
Sonja’s effort to get Payne to fall
for her in order that her younger
sister may marry. It seems that
there is an old Scandinavian cus
tom that the oldest sister has to
marry first, so Sonja does her best
to fix it up for his sister.
The Lowdown: This is a pretty
good ice show, and it will keep you
entertained.
Friday and Saturday’s double bill
will be “Five Graves To Cairo”,
and “So This Is Washington”. The
first is the story of the battle for
Northern Africa between the
Germans and the British. Franchot
Tone, Anne Baxter, and Akim Ta-
maroff play the leading parts.
Tone, a British soldier who is left
behind by his unit in the British
retreat, learns the Nazi plans, and
finds out where their supplies
come from. He works right under
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Rommel’s nose, and has some very
narrow escapes. “So This Is Wash
ington’ is a Lum and Abner com
edy, and it tells of the adventures
of these two old Arkansas boys in
the nation’s capital.
The Lowdown: You are sure to
like “Five Graves To Cairo”. It is
full of suspense, and has a very
interesting plot. The other is just
so-so.
At the Campus today and Wed
nesday the feature will be “Happy
Land”, with Don Ameche in the
leading part. playg the propri
etor of a small town drugstore. As
the picture begins he receives a
telegram telling him of his son’s
death in the war. From there on,
the story of his son’s life up to the
time he enlisted is told in flash
backs. Dickie Moore plays Ameche’s
son, and his mother is Frances
Dee. You will like Ann Rutherford
as the girl he leaves behind him.
The Lowdown: This is one you’ll
really go for, except that it is
sad. Most of us don’t like sad end
ings, but this picture has so many
good things about it that you won’t
mind too much. €
Thursday and Friday “Bermuda
Mystery” with Ann Rutherford and
Preston Foster is to play at the
Campus. It is just a run-of-the-
mill murder mystery, but since
it is th^ first mystery that has
been here in a little while you’ll
probably be able to live through it.
The Lowdown: O. K., but nothing
special.
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ments on things seen—things seen
includes Aggies, buildings, and
more Aggies.
Noticed with a grin that the
Fish stripes are back in vogue.
Hooray! Not to wish woe on the
freshmen, only to say that one of
the traditions of A. & M. has
returned, with all concerned the
better for it.
Ahh! I spied boots . . . big,
gleaming senior boots! Further
more, I started at those boots, too,
Get the Habit
of Dropping in
— at —
GEORGE’S
for a
Refreshing Drink
and a
Satisfying Bite to Eat
this time not with a wishful gleam,
but a friendly gleam. (Shame on
me!) Never was there a nicer
sight than Aggie Senior “shoes”
being worn.
Watched the football team prac
tice. Those fellows sure looked
like the makings’ of a swell team.
Not knowing the basic fundament
als for gridiron greatness. I can
say that their blocking is exceed
ed only by their passes. ( ?) “Pass
es” here referring to football lin
go.
Strolled about the campus, sigh,
never have I felt closer to the
Sahara. Summer suns are the same
everywhere.
Asa REMINDER, don’t for-
get that TSCW student’s return to
their haunts September 15th. We
can all look forward to many great
times at football games, dances,
and such. In fact, now is the time
to decide to study during the week
to leave *those weekends free, we
adopted that policy long ago. I
think we adopted it from the Ag
gies.
Future hopes include louder yell
practices, huge victories for the
team, larger parties afterward,
more eventful weekends, and good
luck on exams.
A. & M. Specialists
Back From Field Day
Study on King Ranch
Several livestock and pasture
specialists of the Texas A. & M.
College attended the third annual
field day held Saturday on the
Encino division of the King Ranch
near Falfurrias where progress re
port was made on a mineral feeding
experiment that is hailed by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
as the most widely publicized live
stock feeding experiment being
conducted in the United States.
Aiter experiments and analyses
of vegetation in the Gulf coastal
region had showed there was a
phospherous deficiency in that re
gion, and range cattle were bene-
fitted in many ways through being
fed phosphorous supplements, tests
began in 1941 to determine the
most practical and economical
methods of supplying the needed
mineral. A control group of stock
cattle received no supplements; the
second bunch had free access to
bone meal; the third received
disodium phosphate in their drink
ing water; the fourth getting di
sodium phosphate and cottonseed
meal in self feeders, and the fifth
group grazing a pasture that had
been fertilized with triple super
phosphate, each group ranging in
a section pasture separate from
the others.
The mineral feeding experiment
is run by the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station and the U. S.
Bureau of Animal Industry in co
operation with the King Ranch.
Participating in the business
program following the barbecue
were J. M. Jones, chief of the
division of range animal industry;
Dr. H. Schmidt, chief of the divi
sion of veterinary science, and R.
L. Hensel, agronomist, all of the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station. A talk also was made by
R. W. Briggs of San Antonio,
member of the A. & M. board of
directors. Also present from the
college at the field day were Dr.
J. C. Miller, acting head of the
Department of Animal Husbandry;
Geo. W. Barnes, beef cattle hus-
Questions of the type given below will be submitted weekly by
some member of the college faculty to test your intelligence, common
sense, and ability to think clearly. Today’s questions were submitted
by Dr. D. F. Weekes, Associate Professor in the Physics Department.
.Each question is worth ten points. A score of 90 or more entitles
the reader to a superior rating; from 70 to 80 is above average; from
40 to 60 is average, and any score below 40 ispoor.
1. Would it be possible to dip
your finger in molten tin for just
an instant without getting it burn
ed?
2. When does dew form more
readily, on clear nights or cloudy
ones ?
3. blow can you estimate fairly
accurately the volume of your
body?
4. Are the stars solid, liquid, or
gaseous ?
5. If someone gave you a cubic
foot of gold, would you be able to
lift it?
6. How is the weather on the
moon? cold, hot, dry, humid;
7. Suppose you have a glass com
pletely filled with water in which
bandman for the Extension Ser
vice, and Dr. Luther Jones and
Richard C. Potts, agronomists.
Over 300 interested cattlemen
were in attendance, including the
three members of the Livestock
Sanitary Commission of Texas, Roy
Loventhal, L. J. Wardlaw and Tom
M. Lasater, also Holman Cart
wright of Dinero, president of the
Texas and Southwestern Cattle
Raisers Association.
The barbecue and procedure of
the field day were under the di
rection of Jim McBride, Encino
division manager. Robert J. Kle
berg, manager of the King Ranch
system, opened and closed the
speaking program.
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a couple of ice cubes are floating.
When the ice melts, how much
water will run over the rim of the
glass ?
8. Why can’t you see the stars
in the daytime?
9. If a 2 inch iron bar, 6 feet
longer than the circumstance of
the earth, were bent into a ring
concentric with the earth, could
you crawl under it ?
10. How much of the Moon’s
surface has been seen by man ?
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