FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 12, 1945
THE BATTALION
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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
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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!
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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
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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.
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