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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 12, 1945 THE BATTALION PAGE 3 Aggies Play Host To Frogs And Mustangs This Week-end Cadets Will Still Be Trying to Win First Conference Game in Two Years Aggieland’s downtrodden bas-'f ketball team will be trying again Friday and Saturday nights, try ing to win their first conference game in two years. Texas Christ ian University’s Horned Frogs will come to DeWare Field House Fri day night and Southern Methodist University’s Mustangs will play here Saturday to round out a full week-end of basketball. T.C.U. won their opening con ference game last Friday when they nosed out the Texas Long horns, 39-38. The Frogs have won only three out of 16 games thus far this year, but they have turned in some pretty good games and did not look too bad while losing. Coach Hub McQuillan’s Frogs have an inexperienced team com posed mostly of freshmen, but they have been strengthened since their football season ended. Two footballers, Norman Cox and Merle Gibson, have recently joined the basketball squad. Both boys stand six feet two and should help the Frogs no end. S.M.U. also won their first con ference game last week-end at the expense of Texas, beating the Orange and White 58-41. The Mus tangs have broken even in ten games thus far, scoring 487 points to 495 for their opponents. Milton Cherno, forward, has been the big gun for the Aggies in most of the pre-season games, and was second to Bill Henry for high point man last Saturday night in the game with Rice. Cotton How ell has returned from the East- West game which was played New Year’s Day in San Francisco and should help out greatly when he has had a few practice sessions. Both games will start at 7:30, and Coach Manning Smith will like ly start the following lineup for the Aggies: Cherno and Collins, forwards; Ellis, center; and Mc Cormick and Weinbaum, guards. SMU Game Will Be Broadcast by WRR Station WRR of Dallas will broadcast the Aggie-SMU basket ball game at 7:30 Saturday night. Station WRR broadcasts all SMU games. It was in the first battle of the Civil War, known as the Battle of Bull Run, that General “Stone wall” Jackson received his nick- DFC Awarded Aggie Flyer For Bombing Raids In Germany DO YOUR PART—BUY BONDS LOUPOT’S A LITTLE PLACE - - A BIG SAVING! “WARM UP” to WINTER with these FURNISHINGS You can be regulation and comfortable too with the right kind of warm furnishings. Choose from these items for service and comfort. Leather Coats Leather Jackets Wool Coats Fleece Lined Jackets O. D. Sweaters O. D. Wool Gloves O. D. Wool Socks Heavy Underwear O. D. Wool Mufflers Field Jackets See our selection of Novelty Winter Caps Wool Sport Shirts Ear Muffs 7 t T WIMBERlEY STON6 • ±y CLOCHl£R$ College and Bryan Flying as first pilot in a veteran Corsica-based B-25 group operating against German targets in north ern Italy, First Lieutenant Law rence J. Payne, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Payne, reside at 3732 Modlin Street, Fort Worth, Texas, has been awarded the Dis tinguished Flying Cross for ex traordinary achievement in aerial flight. Lt. Payne, who has flown more than 50 combat missions in his Mitchell bomber, received the award for his outstanding flying in an at tack against a railroad bridge at Nervesa, Italy on November 5. Just as the bomb run was begun, shell fragments from an intense anti-aircraft barrage badly dam aged his plane, nearly rocking it from his control. The citation reads in part: “Displaying great courage and superior flying ability in the face of this accurate barrage, Lt. Payne maintained his crippled plane on course, thereby enablingv his bombardier to release his bombs with devastating effect upon this vital objective.” Lt. Payne was graduated from Arlington Heights High School and attended Texas A. & M. be fore entering the service. He arrived overseas in May and was assigned to a veteran B-25 unit which has played a major role in all the campaigns in the Mediter ranean. This group broke a world’s record in bombing accuracy when, during the months of September and October, it flew 68 missions to place 9 out of every 10 bombs in the target area for an acuracy of better than 90 per cent. Lt. Payne has also been award ed the Air Medal with 10 oak leaf clusters. General Bee conferred the title of ‘Stonewall” on General Jackson, when he said “Look! There stands Jackson, like a stone wall!”, dur ing the Battle of Bull Run. —SHORT COURSE— Continued from Page 1 the heavier farm tasks. While farmers, including dairy operators, are working longer hours than was the custom in prewar years, Hohn, Hickerson and Bent ley made it plain that this wil lingness to devote individual ef fort to a greater extent would not fill the gap between a greater out put on one hand and fewer work ing units on the other. Too, there is less machinery capable of doing farm drudgery than was the case before we entered the war. The session on farm labor sav ing devices included the demonstra tion and explanation of several units that have been forced on the farming industry by a combination of these circumstances. Dairy fieldmen from Kansas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Arkansas, in addition to Texas operators at tended the banquet given Monday night in Sbisa Hall. Bryan Blalock, dairyman from Marshall and pres ident of the Dairy Products Insti tute of Texas, traced the change in our theory of government, hailing the wisdom of substituting human rights over property as the most The first battle of the Civil War was fought near Washington, D. C. Hundreds of sightseers, with picnic baskets, went out to watch the fun. It was not amusing! Now is the best time to sell your SOPHOMORE BOOKS We are buying selected books at the highest possible prices. Remember if you can get more elsewhere, we sell back to you at the same price. lOUPOTS TRADING POST BATTALIONA— Season’s Bos of Aggie’s Games For those of you who are interested in statistics the follow ing information is published. Compiled below is the individual scoring of each man, how each score was made, and the number of games each player has played in. Player Games Field Free Total Played Goals Throws Points Ken Abrams 9 2 1 5 Tom Blackstone 9 5 2 12 Jim Cashion 4 1 0 2 Milton Cherno 11 41 9 91 Bob Collins 8 3 2 8 Tom Daniel 1 0 0 0 Hub Ellis 10 12 5 29 Bill Fincannon Hilton Hall Curtis Homeyer Cotton Howell Bill McCormick 11 31 25 87 Tommy Murnane 2 0 0 0 Don Nicholas 3 0 1 1 Jim Parmer 1 0 0 0 Bob Sapp 8 4 3 11 Gene Spires 6 6 0 12 Bill Tucker 4 2 1 5 Jim Voss ! 6 1 0 2 Charlie Weinbaum 11 16 12 44 Oscar White Totals 9 12 141 8 70 32 352 precious heritage the United States holds for its people. Dairy fieldmen and the indus try as a whole are going to have to adjust to changing conditions after the war, M. E. McMurray, manager of the Texas Dairy Prod ucts Association, warned. Resource fulness and salesmanship were list ed as the most essential factors these individuals will have to car ry with them into the peace era, with more consideration to the wishes and whims of the people with whom they are dealing. Various phases of feed produc tion and the balancing of feed re quirements needed by the dairy animal were covered in addresses made on the program for Monday afternoon and Tuesday forenoon. These covered the activities of the War Food Administration by H. J. Solomon, and the duties and mode of operation of the AAA by P. C. Colgin. In each mention of basic feeds green pastures were said to be the most complete and most eco nomical of all for livestock. “Green Acres” was the subject of a film produced by the National Fertiliz er Association shown with running comments by R. R. Lancaster, pas ture specialist for the Extension Service. Nutritive values of dairy feeds were enumerated by Dr. P. B. Pearson of the Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station; P. T. Montfort, Department of Agricul tural Engineering, handled recent developments in hay and grain dry ing; development of a sound breed ing program was traced by A. L. Darnell, professor of Dairy Hus bandry; O. C. Copeland, chief of the Experiment Station division of Dairy Husbandry, discussed the feeding of dry and lactating cows, and the importance of D. H. I. A. Testing was shown by O. W. Thompson of the Extension Serv ice. ^ Rounding out the forenoon pro gram Tuesday were data on main taining a sanitary water supply for dairy herds by J. H. Sorrels, professor of Municipal and Sani tary Engineering. Slated for discussion during the closing meeting Tuesday afternoon were: Cattle Disease Prevention by Dr. F. P. Jaggi of the School of Veterinary Hygiene; Postwar Plans for Dairy Buildings by Prof. A. L. Darnell; and a Quality Milk Production Clinic run by Harold E. Meister of the Dairy and Poul try Inspection division of the War VICTORY BUY UNITED STATES WAR Ijonds AND STAMPS Food Administration; Charles R. Burleson, dairy field service di vision of Johnson and Johnson Co.; Dr. W. S. Arbuckle, Agricultural Experiment Station; P. T. Mont fort and A. V. Moore. Over 100 dairy fieldmen repre senting Texas dairy products man ufacturers, creameries and cheese plants registered for the two-day short course, which is under the di rection of A. V. Moore, professor of Dairy Husbandry. Its main pur pose is to acquaint these fieldmen with newest developments in all phases of dairy and milk produc tion, and was instituted at the re quest of the manufacturing inter ests cited. Mechanical Wizard Solves Complicated Math Problems Mathematical problems which would take several years to work by conventional methods are now being solved in a few days by use of a recently perfected differential analyzer. This wizard machine, consisting of an interconnected system of shafts, motors and gears, em ploys mechanical elements for ad dition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and electro-mechani cal elements for more complex functions. Practically all of the gears and couplings are removable and must be set up in a different arrangement for each new prob lem. According to scientists, almost any physical phenomenon can be expressed in terms of differential equations. Since this analyzer is fundamentally a tool permitting rapid solution of such equations, it can be used to solve many prob lems of an important nature whose correct answers were until now only guessed at. Most important element of this new analyzer is a polaroid photoe lectric system of unique design which General Electric developed. Fourteen of these highly sensitive devices are installed on the ma chine, thus permitting the accu rate, speedly solution of differen tial equations requiring as many as fourteen simultaneous integra tions. In appearance the G-E analyzer resembles a long maze of shafts and gears with four input tables and two output tables extending to one side. When the machine is in use, the variables in the differential equations being solved are represented by the rotation of shafts in the machine. These are' connected with mechanical pens on the output tables. As the shafts speed ahead to solve the equation, they move the pens which, in turn, plot an accurate curve in accord ance with the quantities worked out by the continuous movement of the shafts. Interpreted correct ly, this curve gives a graphic solu tion of the problem. Before the analyzer is put into* operation, the problem must first be set up on the machine. To do this, necessary equa tions are arrived at and var ious shafts and gears are inter connected so that all the quantities in the problem will be represent ed. Then, after the wizard ma chine is set to work, technicians may grind into it by means of the input tables required mathematical functions, if more are needed, to obtain a final solution. Differential analyzers were first developed by Dr. Vannevar Bush, formerly of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania and M. I. T. made modifications and further im provements. When General Elec tric began construction of its ana lyzer, it patterned the mechanical part largely after those already in existence, adding some unique fea tures of its own development. Most important of these was the photo electric follow-up system used with the intergrator. This improv ed the performance of the analyzer by attaining a shorter solution time with a greater degree of ac curacy. By making use of such mechaniz ed mathematics, engineers have been studying many complex phy sical problems, a great number of which are related to the war. Ap plications made of the machine so far have included such problems as radar, hydrodynamic flow, ro tating machinery, airplane stress es and speed governors. According to engineers, continuous availabil ity of it in the future will result in greater knowledge and better understanding of many technical problems which were hitherto un solved. Adamson Asks For Swimmers to Meet All men interested in swim ming be at the Gym Monday, January 15, at 5:00 p.m. Art Adamson has announced that swimmers and especially divers should be there. He is forming the 1945 Aggie swimming team. Art would like to have as many men out for the team as possible, in order to have as good a team this year as we have always had. San Angelo Lieut. Wins Air Medal AN EIGHTH AIR FORCE FIGHTER STATION, England.— First Lieutenant Edward R. Hay- don, of 52 West 25th St., San Angelo, Texas, an Eighth Air Force fighter pilot, has been presented the Air Medal. The Texan received the award from the 357th Fighter Group com manding officer, Lieutenant Col onel Irwin H. Dregne, of Viroqua, Wis., at an outdoor ceremony here. “For exceptionally meritorious service in aerial flight over enemy occupied Continental Europe. The courage, coolness and skill dis played by this officer reflect great credit upon himself and the Armed Forces of the United States.” Lieutenant Haydon recently shared in the downing of a jet propelled Messerschmitt 262 over Magdeburg, Germany, and de stroyed a Focke Wulf 190 parked on a Luftwaffe airfield near Mu nich. A former student of Texas A. and M. College, College Station, Texas, Lieutenant Haydon enlisted in the AAF Jan. 1, 1942. V&X THE WJArs/ DO YOUR ?ART * BUY WAR BONDS De Bulls Pay a Social Call ' YOU 6UYS fcOTT STOP CALLING MEtYiSH '' BLOTTOf j NOW LOOK, YOU'LL ADMIT THAT I'M NOT r OH SURE"/ '(OU HAVEWT GOT ANY OF THE ''nSH""PRl Vi LEGES" BUT "FISH" HAS JUST BECOME fWRT OF YOUR NAME/IT JUST RSH BLOTTO, DO YOU WANT U5 ID GET! UNHAPPY WITH YOU?consider thisJ MATTER