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PAGE 4 THE BATTALION TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 18, 1944 W T A W Batt Chat Tom Breneman’s breakfast in Hollywood broadcast, more famili arly known as Breakfast at Sar- di’s, accounted for the sale of $4,171,000 worth of war bonds in five out-of-town appearances for the Sixth War Loan Drive. The special programs were cli maxed with the December 11 broad cast from Sacramento, Calif., where more than 7,500 fans purchased $1,400,000 in bonds to see the show. This is believed to be one of the highest “E” Bond sale yet rolled up by a big radio show in the current drive. The program’s bond sales in other cities were: Spokane, $522,000; San Francisco, $1,250,000; Oak land, $750,000; and Reno, Nevada, $249,000. * * * Three all-time favories, “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,” “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” and “Old Folks at Home,” will be sung by the harmonious a-capella chorus on WTAW’s Aunt Jemima Show, Wednesday, December 20, at 9:25 a. m., CWT. On Thursray, December 21, the choristers will intone “St. Louis Blues” and “Juanita,” and on Fri day, December 22, “Wait for the Wagon” and “I Love You Truly.” Aunt Jemima, portrayed by Har riet Widmer, will have more of her lovable old plantation sayings. Don Dowd is the announcer. * * * The number-one love song of the last war. “Till We Meet Again,” will be revived for sweethearts of this war on the Jack Berch Show, Thursday, December 21, at 10:45 a. m., CWT, over WTAW. For their instrumental selection the Three Suns will play “Eight eenth Century Drawing Room.” Jack’s songs for the Thursday broadcast of the WTAW Moriday- through-Friday quarter-hour musi cal include “This is the Missus,” STUDENT CO-OP Bicycle and Radio Repair PHONE 4-4114 PRESIDENT’S XMAS EVE MESSAGE President Roosevelt will deliver a special Christmas message to the nation on Christmas Eve, Sunday, December 24, at 4:15 p. m., CWT, over WTAW. It is expected that the President will speak for approx imately 15 minutes. “Strange Music” and “Gay Ranch- ero.” * * >l< “White Christmas” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” two of the currently popular Yuletime melo dies will be carolled by Baritone Curley Bradley on WTAW’s Farm and Home Makers program, Thurs day, December 21, at 11:30 a. m., CWT. The Cadets Quartet will vocalize Beattie’s “The First Noel,” and the Home Towners, under the di rection of Harry Kogen, will play “Snowfall” and the “Evergreen Polka.” Kay Baxter, ace homemaker, will have get-ready-for-Christmas hints and Mirandy will philosophize about her Persimmon Holler neigh bors. DO YOUR PART—BUY BONDS Houston Aggies to be Honored With Dance The Houston A. & M. Mothers Club, in conjunction with the Hous ton Ex-Students Association, is giving the Houston A. & M. Club a Christmas Dance. It is to be held at the Junior League Dance Club located in the 500 block of Stuart St. Music to to be furnished by the Ellington Field Dance Orchestra, and the dance will last from 9 until 1 on Thursday, December 28. There will be no charge and refreshments will be served. The dance will be formal, and all present and Ex- Students are invited. The Mothers Club has spared no time and expense to make this the best Christmas dance ever held by the Houston Aggies, so everyone is asked to give them their fullest support, said Tommy Penn. Uni- orm number one will be worn, and a mid-nite yell practice wll be held. Local Scouts to Make Paper Collection Sat. Dr. L. G. Jones of the Agronomy Department has announced that College Station Boy Scouts will make a paper collection on Satur day, January 6, between 8 and 10 o’clock in the morning. Students who desire and are willing to co operate in this paper drive, are requested to put their paper out the night before so that those col lectors who get out before 8 o’clock may pick up the bundles. Paper may also be left at the northeast corner of the Animal Husbandry judging pavillion. The packages should be tied with string in two directions, said Dr. Jones. LISTEN TO WTAW 1150 kc.—(Blue Network) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1944 A. M. 6:00 Sign On 6:02 Texas Earn & Home Prog. WTAW 6 :15 Sunup Club WTAW 7 :00 Martin Agronsky— Daily War Journal BN 7 :15 Let’s Learn Spanish WTAW 7 :30 Blue Correspondents BN 7 :45 Morning Melodies —WTAW 7 :65 Hollywood Headliners WTAW 8:00 The Breakfast Club BN 9:00 My True Story BN 9:25 Aunt Jemima BN 9 :30 Between The Lines WTAW 9:45 The Listening Post BN 10:00 Breakfast At Sardi’s BN 10:30 Gil Martyn BN 10:45 Jack Berch And His Boys.... BN 11:00 Glamour Manor BN 11:15 Meet Your Neighbor BN 11:30 Farm and Home Makers BN P. M. 12:00 Baukhage Talking BN 12 :15 WTAW Noonday News WTAW 12 :30 Farm Fair WTAW 12:45 Piano Playhouse BN 1:00 Kiernan’s Corner BN 1:15 Mystery Chef BN 1:80 Ladies Be Seated BN 2:00 Songs by Morton Downey BN 2:15 Appointment With Life BN 2 :45 Sincerely Yours BN 3:00 Time Views The News BN 3 :15 Music for Moderns WTAW 3:30 I’ll Buy That, BN 3:45 Our Neighbor Mexico— Dr. A. B. Nelson WTAW 4:00 Rev. Hartman (Lutheran)..WTAW . 4 :16 Dick Tracy BN 4:30 To Be Announced 4 :46 Hop Harrigan BN 5 :00 Terry and the Pirates BN 5:15 Treasury Salute. WTAW 5:30 Jack Armstrong BN 5:45 Captain Midnight BN 6:00 Excursions In Science. WTAW 6:15 Rotary Club Program WTAW 6:30 Sign Off THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1944 A. M. 6:00 Sign On 6:02 Texas Farm & Home Prog. WTAW 6:15 Sunup Club WTAW 7:00 Martin Agronsky— Daily War Journal BN 7:16 Toast and Coffee WTAW 7:30 Blue Correspondents BN 7:46 Rosa Rio at the Organ BN 8:00 The Breakfast Club BN 9:00 My True Story... BN 9:26 Aunt Jemima BN 9:30 Between the Lines WTAW 9:45 The Listening Post BN 10:00 Breakfast at Sardi’s BN 10:30 Gil Martyn BN 10:45 Jack Berch And His Boys.... BN 11:00 Glamour Manor BN 11:16 Meet Your Neighbor BN 11:80 Farm and Home Makers BN P. M. 12:00 Baukhage Talking BN 12:16 WTAW Noonday News. WTAW 12:30 Farm Fair WTAW 12 :40 Texo Roundup. WTAW 12:45 Los Andrinis BN 1:00 Kiernan’s Corner BN 1:15 Mystery Chef BN 1:30 Ladies Be Seated I BN 2 :00 Songs by Morton Downy BN 2:15 Appointment With Life BN 2 :45 Sincerely Yours BN 3:00 Time Views The News BN 3:30 To Be Announced 3:15 Music For Moderns WTAW 3:30 I’ll Buy That BN 3:45 Something To Read WTAW 4 :00 Student Personnel WTAW 4 :15 Dick Tracy BN 4:30 To Be Announced 4:45 Hop Harrigan BN 5:00 Terry And The Pirates BN 5:15 Let’s Look At the News WTAW 5:30 Jack Armstrong BN 5 :45 Captain Midnight BN 6:00 Fred Waring BN 6:30 Sign Off FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1944 A. M. 6:00 Sign On 6:02 Texas Farm & Home Prog. WTAW 6 :15 Sunup Club WTAW 7:00 Martin Agronsky— Daily War Journal BN 7:16 Let’s Learn Spanish WTAW 7:30 Blue Correspondents BN 7:45 Morning Melodies WTAW 7:55 Hollywood Headliners WTAW 8:00 The Breakfast Club BN 9:00 My True Story BN 9:25 Aunt Jemima BN 9:30 Between the Lines WTAW 9:45 The Listening Post BN 10:00 Breakfast at Sardi’s BN 10:30 Gil Martyn BN 10:45 Jack Berch And His Boys.. BN 11:00 Glamour Manor BN 11:16 Meet Your Neighbor BN 11:30 Farm and Home Makers.... BN P. M. 12:00 Baukhage Talking BN 12:15 WTAW Noonday News....WTAW 12:30 Farm Fair WTAW 12:45....Luncheon Tunes WTAW 1:00 Kiernan’s Corner BN 1:15 Mystery Chef BN 1:30 Ladies Be Seated BN 2:00 Songs by Morton Downey BN 2:15 International Xmas Party.... BN 2:45 Sincerely Yours BN 3:00 Time Views The News BN 3:15 Music for Moderns WTAW 3:30 To Be Announced 3:45 Treasury Star Salute. WTAW 4:00 Something to Read .WTAW 4:15 Dick Tracy BN 3:30 I’ll Buy That BN 4:45 Hop Harrigan BN 5:00 Terry and the Pirates BN 6:15 Treasury Salute .WTAW 6 :30 Jack Armstrong 1 BN 5:45 Captain Midnight — BN 6:00 Notes From Yesterday BN 6:30 Sign Off SATURDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1944 A. M. 6:00 Sign On 6:02 Texas Farm & Home Prog. WTAW 6:15 Sunup Club -WTAW 7:00 News Summary...., BN 7:15 Arlo at the Organ BN 7:30 United Nations News BN 7:45 Off the Record WTAW 8:00 The Breakfast Club BN 9:00 Fannie Hurst Presents BN 9:30 What’ Cooking—Boyardee.. BN 9:45 Songs by Jean Tighe BN 10:00 Chatham Shopper & 3 Sons BN 10:15 Trans-Atlantic Quiz BN 10:30 Land of the Lost BN 11:00 Swingshift Frolics BN 11:05 WTAW NEWS WTAW 11:30 NatT Farm & Home Hour BN P. M. 12:00 Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concert BN 12:15 Trans-Atlantic Quiz. BN 12 :30 Farm FainrPEM 12:30 Farm Fair .'. WTAW 12 :40 Bunkhouse Roundup WTAW 12 :45 Luncheon Tunes WTAW 1:00 Metropolitan Opera BN 5:00 Hello, Sweetheart. BN 5:15 Harry Wismer—Sports BN 6:30 Soldiers With Wings. BN 5.45 Andrini Continentales BN 6:00 Sustaining Music BN 6:15 Children’s Vesper Hour WTAW 6:30 Sign Off 7:15 Sign On 7:15 Football Game 10:30 Sign Off SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1944 A. M. 8 :00 Blue Correspondents BN 8:16 Coast to Coast on a Bus BN 9:00 The Lutheran Hour WTAW 9 :30 The Southernaires BN 10:00 Music by Master Composers WTAW 11:00 Weekly War Journal BN 11:30 College Ave. Bapt. Church—WTAW P. M. 12:00 John B. Kenedy BN 12:16 George Hicks BN 12:30 Sammy Kaye’s Tangee Serenade .♦ BN 12:55 Your Sunday News Extra.... BN 1:00 Old Fash. Revival Hour....WTAW 2:00 ' Listen, the Women BN 2:30 Miss Hattie BN 3:00 Darts for Dough BN 3:30 Set To Music BN 4:00 Mary Small Revue BN 4:30 Met. Opera Presents^ BN 6:00 Radio Hall of Fame. BN 6:00 Drew Pearson BN 6:15 Week of Review WTAW 6:30 Sign Off HELP BRING VICTORY BUY MORE WAR BONDS OFFICIAL NOTICES Classified FOR RENT—Apartment, (two rooms and bath). Southeast exposure. Would like to have couple with wife taking care of woman recovering from operation and do the cooking. Ample provision made for this. Will consider other arrangements. Call 4-7064. LOST—Tan cloth jacket with red lining. Left in Room 207 of the Academic Bldg. Finder please return to Frog Tipton, Room 104, Law Hall. FOR SALE—2 pair Senior Boots and Spurs, one size 8 to 9, one size S 1 ^ to 9. 2 pair Boot Pants. Inquire at Room 232, Dorm 16. Announcements Students whose absence from class is classed as authorized are reminded that authorized absence cards for each subject missed must be submitted in duplicate within 48 hours after the return from the absence and that arrangements for making up the work missed must be made with the instructor within live days. Aiter this week these limitations will be strictly enforced. F. C. Bolton Dean of the College The new bulletin that gives the changes in the College Calendar and changes in expenses for the Spring Semester is now available at the Registrar’s Office. H. L. Heaton Registrar NOTICE—The Library is trying to lo cate a shipment of nine books from the Cokesbury Book Store. Please notify Mrs. Sugareff if you have any information about such a shipment. College Prepares Analysis Sheet For Farm Business Time has come for farmers to chet* 3 .: up on “how we made out this year,” both for their own bene fit and for Uncle Sam’s informa tion. To help farmers systemati cally get the needed facts to gether, the A. and M. College Ex tension Service has prepared a “Farm Business Analysis Sheet” available on request from county Extension agents. Such an analysis sheet is handy when a farmer sits down to sort out his bank statements, credit accounts, and bills. It is also use ful when he reviews his physical production, such as pigs weaned per litter, sorghum production per acre, or grain fed per hundred pounds of pork produced. Tyrus R. Timm, Extension eco nomist in farm management who developed the form, says it will be helpful in preparing income tax returns and in providing infor mation for the 1945 agricultural census just ahead. The analysis sheet contains space for a check on field crops and feed, plus a division for breaking down the livestock and poultry program. Timm says. Also included is space for itemizing investments, ex penses, and incomes for both land lord and tenant, so a fair basis for rental agreements and other settlements may be established. When figures for the year’s busi ness are filled in, the income and expense statements will show exactly where the farm income came from and where it went, Many Improvements Needed on Farms Says Extension Worker While industry and business look forward to “reconversion,” there are many phases of farm family living no one should aspire to re turn to, in the opinion of Mrs. Bernice Claytor, of the A. and M. College Extension Service. She points to the last agricul tural census which showed that nearly 90 per cent of rural farm homes in this country had no in side toilets before the war. Eighty- two per cent were without run ning water, and about two-thirds without electric lighting or power. Mrs. Claytor recently returned from the national outlook confer ence in Washington, D. C., which accepted as one goal of agricul tural “reconversion,” if there is such, full and efficient production. Representatives felt that parity prices and parity income are not sufficient. Farmers objectives also include parity of public services and of facilities for rural people, such as housing, health services and hospitals, schools, and rural electrification. Goals for farm family living accepted by the conference for the post war period include: A nutritionally adequate diet, a house that can be made into a home, clothing for protection and enjoy ment; health for every member of the family; education for partici pation in a democratic living; re creation for better living; per sonal cleanliness and good groom ing; transportation for business and pleasure; communication with other persons and other areas; and economic security for the family. No Battalion Friday Due to the fact that school is to be dismissed Friday, Decem ber 22nd at noon, there will be no Battalion published on that day. Regular publication will be resumed on Friday, January 5, 1945. —COLONELr- (Continued From Page 1) Plans Section. In the first World War, McNew entered the Corps of Engineers as a private, hut was later sent to Officers Candidate School and commissioned as a Second Lieuten ant, combined regiment, Corps of Engineers in France, during the occupation of Germany. While on his tour of duty in China-Burma-India theater, Mc New was witness to many inter esting but seemingly impossible tasks connected with the progress of construction of huge Super- Fortress airfields in this theater. In one instance, it took fifteen thousand Chinese coolies but thir ty days to construct not only one of these bases alone, but also all the facilities, Mess Halls, Dormi tories, Hangars, and supply sheds, etc., from the time the simplest hand tool was applied to the Earth, until the first Super-Fort ress landed on the newly finished runway. There is no equipment on the China front, no picture shows, no flags fly, no bands play, tens- of-thousands of Chinese coolies haul sand and gravel as far as fifteen miles in nothing but one and one half gallon buckets. Gravel is laid on the airfield by hand, and pounded into place with nothing but crude wooden mallets. On one of his tours of inspection, McNew witnessed a twenty-five foot cut made entirely by hand in order that the grade on a runway be made to a required slope. While on tour of the front, Mc New met many graduates of A. & M., and in one case he met and talked with a former student of his who was Residential Engineer in complete charge of construction of a huge Super-Fortress base in China. Early in 1944, McNew had the interesting experience of making a five hundred mile trip down the Burma Road to the place where the actual battle between the Chinese and Japanese was taking place. Labor is so plentiful and cheap, that it would be impractical to bring in any kind of construction equipment for use at the front, for the Chinese will work for ten or fifteen cents and a bowl of rice a day. Also, labor is so plentiful, that when a tractor was flown in to the China theatre, the only one on the whole front by the way, it put two hundred Chinese out of work. But the greatest jobs of all were accomplished by our own Ameri can Engineers^, who often worked as much as twenty-four hours a day checking supplies and some equipment, and keeping up the morale of their men (which was probably the greatest job of all.) After some two hundred and seventy-five hours flying time in the air, due to the fact that Mc New flew everywhere he went, and some fourteen months over seas, McNew returned to this country on December 5th, 1944. —LINDSAY— Continued from Page 1 XI society from some other in stitution. Participating in the organization meeting held on Dec. 13, with the name of each individual’s chapter, were: J. D. Lindsay, Michigan; W. A. Varvel, Kansas; A. I A. L. Mathews, Chicago; J. H. Quisen- berry, Illinois; B. L. Warwick, Wisconsin; W. P. Taylor, Califor nia; A. A. Jakkula, Minnesota; C. C. Doak, Illinois; G. W. Bilsing, Ohio State; R. K. Fletcher, Ohio State; E. P. Humbert, Cornell; E. B. Reynolds, Iowa State; W. D. Harris, Iowa State; A. R. Kem- merer, Wisconsin; C. J. Hesse, Kan sas; Jessie Whitacre, Chicago; Sylvia Cover, Missouri; J. F. Fudge, Wisconsin; A. A. Dunlop, Yale; J. J. Sperry, Nebraska; P. J. A. Zeller, Rutgers; R. 0. Berry, John Hopkins; and D. F. Weeks, Cornell. .ba Members of Sigma XI chapters at other institutions who were un able to attend the local organiza tion meeting were: O. W. Silvey, Chicago; W. M. Potts, Chicago; F. —BACKWASH— (Continued From Page 2) himself. . . . Knees are a luxury. Don’t think so? Well, just try and get hold of one. ... A young new lywed 'was sobbing because her husband was out shooting craps and she didn’t know how to cook them. . . . Why are there fewer railroad than automobile acci dents? It may be that the engi neer isn’t always hugging the fireman. ... To get rid of cooties take a bath in sand and rub down with alcohol. The cooties get drunk and kill each other throwing rocks. . . . Paying alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. . . . They say a cat has nine lives, but a frog croaks every night. . . . And then there was the dumb engineering student who let his roommate fix him up with a blind date with Al- lis-Chalmers. W. Jensen, Nebraska; C. W. Bur- chard, Wisconsin; M. T. Harring ton, Iowa State; E. B. Middleton, Illinois; R. W. Bremner, Washing ton, and R. Engle, F. M. Eaton, L. T. Murray, S. H. Hopkins, P. B. Pearson, H. A. Luther, R. W. Luecke and T. S. Paine. Other Sigma XI members are urged to get in touch with the listed officers of the local chapter. Next meeting of the Texas A. & M. College Sigma XI Club will v/e held in Room 115 of the Pet roleum-Geology building at 4:00 p. m. Wednesday. DR. N. B. McNUTT DENTIST Office in Parker Building Over Canady’s Pharmacy Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas MERRY CHRISTMAS Have a Happy Holiday and Come to See Us When You Get Back. AGGIELAND STUDIO Joe Sosolik, Proprietor “25 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS SERVICE” THE EXCHANGE STORE Wishes You a Very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR MERRY CHRISTMAS 214 SOUTH MAIN BRYAN, TEXAS MERRY CHRISTMAS $6.50 Your Pedal Extremities... Any way you look at it, more foot work is required to tee this war to conclusion. The smart man will coddle his feet in dependable shoes. Discover Edgerton comfort! CUaldrop&(o. “Two Convenient Stores” College Station Bryan % ■ x j 4 t 0 * i * l t * \