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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 27, 1944 THE BATTALION Page 3 Aggies Face N. T. A. C. Saturday In Non-Conference Tilt A. & M. In Best Physical Condition Of Season as All Hands In Shape Determined to make amends for their dismal showing last week against the Texas Christian Uni versity’s Frogs, Coach Homer Nor ton’s Aggies will take on the Jun ior Aggies from N. T. A. C. Sat urday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. on Kyle Field. N. T. A. C. has been strengthen ed by the addition of five new sail ors who will become eligible in time to participate in the game here Saturday. The new men are L. S. Sailer, 180 pound center from Corrigan; W. E. Ruthstrom, 185 pound halfback from Houston; L. G. Scott, 170 pound guard from Dallas; B. J. Powell, 194 pound guard from Dallas; and J. C. Ryan, 180 pound tackle from Meridian. These boys are expected to add LOUPOT’S A Little Place - - - - - - A Big Saving! It’s SURE to RAIN... So be smart—be ready for these sudden weather changes with a good Reg ulation Rain Coat. They are tailored by Alligator and other fine makers. Select yours today while all sizes are in stock. 7 t T f-* TV WIMBERLEY • STONE • DANSBY W/n-JTIZ CLOTHIERS College and Bryan Jesse “Red” Burditt is the chief running threat N.T.A.C. will offer here Saturday. Red was one of the fleet halfbacks on Coach Homer Norton’s “Kid die Korps” of 1943. considerable strength to the weak North Texans. The Junior Aggies will depend in large part on the passing of J. B. Rogers of Austin and the running of Jesse “Red”’ Burditt, backfield speedster who was a member of the famed “Kiddie Korps” last fall. A. &M. will probably be in the best physical condition of the sea son for this game, and Coach Nor ton will be able to use every man on his squad for the first time this year. “Butch” Butchofsky seems to have become adjusted to his special headgear and will prob ably be in the starting lineup Sat urday. George McAllister and Jim mie Parmer, fullbacks who have been nursing leg injuries off and on all season, will be able to play if they are needed. The Nortonmen will outweigh their opponents by seven pounds per man. Aggie starters averaging 188 pounds while N. T. A. C. starters will average 181. The Ag gie line averages 196, while the backfield will average 170. The North Texans line hits 190 and their backfield 166. N. T. A. C. was to have arrived on the campusi Friday afternoon, taking a short workout at the site of the game. Season records of the two clubs favor the Aggies by a wide margin, but the’ favored team does not always win as the Frogs proved last week. Last year, a favored N. T. A. C. eleven, powered with Navy men, was held to a 0-0 tie by the Aggies. This year, it is the North Texans time to try to spring an upset. Pi'obable starting lineups: A. & M.: Cotton Howell, left end; Charlie Shira, left tackle; Bill Gray, left guard; Bob Gary, cen ter; Greek Tassos, right guard; Monte Moncrief, right tackle; Nor ton Higgins, right end; Jimmy Cashion, quarterback; Bob Butch ofsky, right halfback; Bobby Goff, left halfback, and Paul Yates, full back. , j N. T. A. C.: J. W. McLean, left end; J. L. James, left tackles; Don White, left guard; T. B. Bryan, center; H. F. Harper, right guard; M. H. Pelovitz, right tackle; G. H. Blackwood, right end; J. B. Rogers, quarterback; Jesse Burditt, left halfback; E. E. Eberhard, right halfback; and C. G. Hall, fullback. Lou was once an Aggie and maybe bust ed a course or two but that doesn’t mean YOU don’t have to study. WHAT PRICE GLORY? A Few Hours of Study. Loupot’s Loan Fund has a small balance. If you owe a small debt, pay it—some of the other boys may need the money. We are still buying a few copies of selected books. Trade With Lou - - - He’s Right With You J. E. LOU POT By S. L. “Slim” Inzer Battalion Sports Editor Aggie Tackle Needs Telescope contenders. This game may be closer than many expect, but it looks like the Longhorns will come out on top. OKLAHOMA over T.C.U.—Al though the Frogs beat the Aggies last Saturday, they failed to show an outstanding team. The Sooners should win this one by a touch down or two. TULANE over S. M. U. — The Greenies swamped Rice and the Owls beat the Mustangs, so it looks as if the Methodists are in for a hard afternoon. ARKANSAS over Mississippi— The Hogs win one before they come to Kyle Field. RANDOLPH FIELD over Third Air Force—I picked this one to' raise my average. If the Ram blers lose, so help me I’ll quit. ing cracks at me about my expert forecasting ... It has been sug gested that the Aggie backs be equipped with burlap bags to car ry the ball in, or either put a han dle on the football. Anything to stop that fumbling . . . Who said chivalry is dead ? Stubby Mat thews caught a T.C.U. pass Sat urday and then gave It to the in tended receiver. He didn’t want the passer to look bad . . . Speak ing of T.C.U. passers, both Joe Kucera and Johnny Sherrod have been lost to Coach Dutch Meyer. Sherrod has been inducted into the Army while Kucera was trans ferred by the Navy. Word has'been received from England that Ser geant Don Hanna, former Aggie gridder, is helping introduce foot ball to the British . . . “Sleepy” League says he worked harder than any other man on the Aggie squad last Saturday. He had to get up off of the bench every time an Aggie left the field. Sleepy said if he had been sent in for the last 30 seconds, he would have been too tired to play . . . Beat N.T.A.C. I Could Be Wrong . It is getting to be a joke around the campus that I am the worst forecaster in the forecasting busi ness. However, it is too near the truth to be much of a joke. I guessed one out of three last week which is about my regular speed. For the benefit of the managing editor, I will forego my feelings one more week and try to raise my average. A. & M. over N.T.A.C.—The Ag gies should win this one by as many touchdowns as they want to. The North Texans have failed to show anything in the way of pow er this fall, so it looks like a push over for the Aggies. TEXAS over Rice—This is the most important contest of the week in the Southwest. By out- scoring S.M.U. last week, the Owls showed that they are definitely It seems as if Coach Homer Nor ton is going to have to furnish tel escopes if he wants all of his play ers to keep posted on the progress of the games. In the Oklahoma game, the Ag gie mentor called D. M. Denton from the bench with the intention of sending him into the game. Denton, freshman tackle, wears specially built glasses while he is playing, but still doesn’t have the best eyesight in the world. Just to make sure he could see all right at night, Coach Norton asked him if he could see what was going on in the game. “Can’t see a thing, Coach, how are we doing?” was the reply. Rambling* . . . Coach Norton lost another grid der this week when Alan “Tiny” Sparkman, giant tackle, left the squad in favor of Uncle Sam’s Navy. Tiny was an all-stater at Thomas Jefferson in San Antonio last year . . . Even my good friend Renyard W. Canis has started tak- —SHORT COURSE— (Continued From Page 1) only saves the executive’s time but lowers production costs. Assisting in staging the short course Is the Department of Accounting and Statistics, in cooperation with WPB’s Office of Production Re search and Development and the ESMWT program of the U. S. Office of Education. J. V. Pennington, vice president, Reed Roller Bit Co., Houston, pre sided at the forenoon session, and W. H. Thomson, vice president, Texas Power and Light Co., Dal las, at the afternoon meeting. Fundamentals of Statistical Qual ity Control were enumerated by V. M. Faires; Paul Peach, industrial .consultant, WPB, handled the In troduction of Statistical Quality Control into Factory Practice, and An Experience With Statistical Methods on Industrial Process Con trol was related by S. E. Sites, Westinghouse E. & M. Co., Mans field, Ohio. For the afternoon program, Cap tain A. R. Burgess spoke on Ap plication of Statistical Principles to the Inspection of Ordnance Ma teriel. Putting Quality Control to Work was discussed by Dr. Edwin G. Olds, statistical consultant, Of fice of Production Research and Development, WPB. Last order of business was a discussion period led by Dr. T. R. Hamilton, acting head of the Department of Account ing and Statistics. Lectures for the programs for the other seven days of the short course are Edward M. Schrock, quality control engineer, Ordnance Research and Development Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.; L. S. Kauffman, chief inspector, American Stove Co., St. Louis, Mo.; A. R. Jackson, Curtiss Wright Corp,. Columbus, Ohio; and S. E. Sites and Captain A. R. Burgess. Weather permitting, a barbecue will be given Sunday afternoon to the 25 students registered in the regular course. There will be no speaking program at the barbecue, Mr. Faires said. The short course now under way at the Texas A. & M. College is the 26th to be held in the United States, and the third in the South, FEATURED ON WTAW Winsome Andree Wallace plays the part of Jane, the attractive daughter of the typically Ameri can Thompson family, on Ethel Barrvmore’s “Miss Hattie” series. Health Department Advises Care For Minor Ailments Young children may suffer as much from winter illnesses as they do from those commonly known as “summer complaints”, in the opin ion of Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health Officer, and his advice to parents is to guard babies and young children against these win ter health hazards. Influenza, tonsilitis, pneumonia, bronchitis, and asthma are includ ed among those diseases which may be dangerous winter illnesses among young children since they affect the respiratory or breathing system. Such diseases as pneumon ia may develop from a neglected cold, that may follow as an after effect of measles or whooping cough, or they may occur sudden ly and with very little warning. These diseases of the rspiratory system are more prevalent in win ter than in summer and are much more difficult to combat than di gestive ailments such as summer complaint. “These winter diseases are par ticularly dangerous to babies and young children,” Dr. Cox stated. “Nearly all of them are spread through the secretions from the nose and mouth. Children not in vigorous health are naturally more susceptible to these complaints and the first line of defense,” Dr. Cox caution, “is to strengthen the pow ers of resistance against disease; the second is to keep them under medical supervision and the third is to make sure they avoid con tact with others who have coughs, colds, or fevers.” according to the records of Dr. Edwin G. Olds. Similar courses now are under way in Los Ange les, with one due to start soon in San Francisco. Around 500 of the leading business institutions in the United States have had represen tatives attending these short courses, with 2,548 executives at tending the first-day conference, and 1,314 taking the full course, these figures including the Texas A. & M. meeting. There is no tuition charge for the short course, but the regis trant must provide his own text books and living expenses. A cer tificate is given to those who satisfactorily complete the course. It is planned by the Department of Management Engineering to have a number of follow-up meet ings to be held at six-week intervals at different locations in Texas. . BEAT N. T. A. C. If a person waited in one place on the earth for a total eclipse of the sun to take place, he would stay there for 360 years, says Dr. C. H. Cleminshaw of the University of Southern California. —DANCE— (Continued From Page 1) mittee under the direction of Her- shel Lippman, Ernest Khoury, and Jere Jean Lewis. An attendance of at least two hundred is expected by Lippman. . Jack Lee Ward, class president, has expressed hope that the tradi tional custom of all the freshmen in an organization doing their best to prevent their sophomoi’es from attending the Ball will not cut the attendance down by any apprecia ble number. He is reported to have said that the situation is well in hand. BEAT N. T. A. C. Purdue university has revived an old regulation calling for cash fines for persons who walk on the cam pus grass. FEATURED ON WTAW Lunching at the RKO commissary are Eve Arden and Robert Bench- ley, top movie comedy stars, and Ann Richards, promising Aus tralian star just signed for films by RKO. Gary Breckner and Larry Keating, emcees of the BLUE’s “Hollywood Star Time" show, were on hand to interview this important trio. ---FOR--- ALTERATIONS. PATCHES AND REPAIRS ...see--- LAUTERSTEIN’S Mica’s special insulating qualities are mighty important in communications equipmentj No equivalent exists, so war’s huge demands caused a critical shortage. Bell Telephone Laboratories’ scientists were assigned the task of somehow finding more mica. They found it — in the very considerable amounts of raw mica which visual inspec tion had rejected. By developing electrical apparatus to test the two most important electrical properties, they increased the usable amount of mica by half and so stretched current supplies of mica to fill all military needs. In many such ways the Bell System is serving the nation, constantly meeting the needs of our fighting forces for dependable communications. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM "Service to the Nation in Peace and War' WELCOME TO A. & M. and to the Varsity and YMCA Barber Shops See our line of Tonics - Shampoos - Razor Blades YMCA Shop in Old “Y’ — Varsity Shop in New “Y’ PLENTY of EATS DRINKS SMOKES CASEY’S CONFECTIONERY “IN THE Y”