THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 21, 1945
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Harold Borofsky
Battalion Sports Editor
Strong Football Is Indicated for This Fall;
Aggies Continue Light Practice and Drills
With the first week of summer
grid drills ovef a fairly tangible
idea of what is in store for South
west Conference grid fans this fall
may be gleaned. The general out
look is for a closely fought race
somewhat on the order of the
1944 season, though your scribe,
for one, hopes that it will not be
so hectic a race.
Southern Methodist mentors are
elated at the prospect of twelve
returning lettermen and six squad-
men, and promise that the Ponies
will be a tough nut to crack. Texas
has eight lettermen and ten squad-
men returning along with pros
pects of several good men being
transferred from T. C. U. in the
Navy program. Among those re
turning at Texas are Wetz, Plyler,
and Bechtol, linemen who stood
out in the Steer’s goal-line stand
against the Aggies last Thanks
giving day, as well as Jack Half
penny, back.
Defending champion Texas
Christian will have seven letter-
men along with a few men who
have had experience at other
schools. Among those returning for
the Frogs are Norman Cox and
Jesse Mason, star backs, of the ’44
season.
Rice will have only five letter-
men and three squadmen return
ing, while Arkansas will have sev
en lettermen and five squadmen,
among them Anton Baldwin, star
back, and the two Schumchyk
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brothers, who starred in the Pork
er’s upset defeat of the Aggies
last season.
Baylor will return to the con
ference gridiron this fall, and
though the Bears will have no let
termen or squadmen they will boast
a number of experienced men and
several high school stars.
The Aggies, who have been work
ing out on Kyle Field for the last
two weeks, have eight lettermen
and one squadman. Of course, all
this speculation is on the basis
of spring drills. There are a num
ber of possibiliites that the en
tire outlook may be changed, Un
cle Sam being a very interested
onlooker. Then there is the pos
sibility of more lettermen return
ing in the fall. For the Aggies,
Tom Daniels, back, and Hub El
lis, center, are slated to return.
Damon Tassos, ace Aggie line
man, has signed up to play pro
fessional football with the Detroit
Lions. Damon, who starred on the
Cadet line in the 1943 and 44 sea
sons should have no trouble mak
ing his name in the pro league.
Your scribe wishes him all the
success due to him.
Jimmy Cushion, Aggie back of
last season, visited on the campus
this week. Jim is in the Army now
and looking forward to the day
when he can come back and lug
the old pigskin again.
The new addition to the Aggie
coaching staff, Botchey Koch, is
really treating the boys with kid
gloves. His blocking technique is
oh, so gentle. For further infor
mation consult “Sleepy” League.
The Aggies spent the last week
in learning the fundamentals that
will be the basis for their coming
work. Blocking, passing, and kick
ing practice will continue until
August when heavy equipment will
be isued and skull practice will
begin.
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Bryan, Texas
Firemen Extinguish B-24 Flames
Three phases of airplane crash firefighting practices were dem
onstrated by crews from air fields in Bryan and San Antonio before
the recent firemen’s training school held at A. & M. In each operation
some 450 gallons of oil and gasoline were poured around the fuselage
of a B-24 and ignited.
Crews from Bryan Army Air Field rescued the pilot and put out
the flames with two class 125 trucks in 1:05 minutes. In the second
operation, a class 155 truck with crew from Brooks Field put out
the fire in 1:30 minutes, and the third featured a class 150 Cardox
truck with crew from Randolph which put out the fire in 30 seconds.
In the top picture above, the ground crew from Bryan Army
Field is cutting a path through the flames to get at the cockpit
to rescue the pilot. Behind them are the rest of the crew with hose
discharging fog and foam on the flames and on the rescue squad.
The water pressure is about 750 pounds to the square inch. In the
bottom picture, the rescue squad is at the door of the cockpit and the
balance of the crew is shown with the fire beaten down.
Civil Service Calls
For Workers to Repair
Navy Fighting Ships
“Damaged fighting ships are
arriving at west coast navy yards
faster than repaired ships can be
sent back to fight Japan,” said H.
N. Yardley, local Secretary of the
U. S. Civil Service Board of Ex
aminers yesterday. “President
Truman, Chairman McNutt of the
W.M.C. and Admiral Nimitz de
clared these repairs must be hast
ened. Other ships scheduled to be
overhauled after 40,000 miles have
—GOOD NEIGHBORS—
(Continued From Page 2)
Argentina has attracted a great
deal of foreign capital. British in
vestments lead; the United tSates
is second; and among Europeans,
the French, Dutch, Belgians and
Germans have heavy investments.
The war forced Argentina to
develop new outlets for her prod
ucts as she was cut off from her
European markets. As a result her
trade' with the other American
countries increased a great deal
especially with the United States.
In October 1941 the two countries
signed a Reciprocal Trade Agree
ment covering concessions on their
chief trade commodities.
Argentina has become a great
center of Spanish printing and pub
lishing, because to her already es
tablished facilities have been added
several of the leading Barcelona
and Madrid publishing houses
transferred to Argentina during
the Spanish Civil War. Argentina’s
newspaper press is among the most
vigorous in the world. Argentina
has 380 daily newspapers, 1300
other newspapers, and 1500 peri
odicals.
Buenos Aires is Cultural Center
Buenos Aires is the center of a
lively artistic life in sculpture,
music and literature. Argentine ar
tists, musicians, and writers are
taking advantage of an unlimited
wealth of native themes to get their
inspiration.
Argentina has some 14,000 ele
mentary schools with 1,800,000
pupils, and 250 high schools. Na
tional and provincial governments
cooperate in maintaining the school
system, and literacy for the en
tire country is 88 percent, the high
est throughout Latin-America.
There are 100 normal schools where
the school teachers of the nation
are educated. The country has 24
universities, nearly all under state
control, the largest of which is the
University of Buenos Aires with
15,000 students.
Argentina is also strong in
health education. Her medical pro
fession is highly trained, and effi
cient. There are excellent hospitals
and research institutes in public
health and social medicine.
made near a quarter of million
miles without ovei’haul, and are
being forced to come in for repairs
and replacements regardless of the
need for them in Japanese waters.
“As the President says, electric
ians, machinists and sheet metal
workers are urgently needed at
Mare Island, Hunter’s Point and
Puget Sound Navy Yards. Qual
ified men are hired on the spot.
Travel and eating expenses en
route are paid and living quarters
are assured at the Navy yards
where they choose to work.”
Texans anxious to help the Navy
do its best can get employment at
Navy recruiting stations in Fort
Worth, Dallas and other points.
They and others may get infor
mation about how and where to
apply from any first or second
class post office, or from the
Branch Regional Office, U. S. Civil
Service, Customs House, New Or
leans, or the Regional Ofice, U.
S. Civil Service, 210 South Har
wood Street, Dallas, Texas.
—MRS. EDMONDSON—
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brary, a rental library which she
operated in her home several years
ago until the various reading clubs
on the campus were formed. Her
gift is a moral as well as a material
boon to the Library, since the spirit
of the giver reflected her confi
dence in the A. & M. College Libra
ry as the most effective organiza
tion for circulating books. Mrs.
Edmondson’s gift was unencumber
ed; she attached none of the limit
ations which well-meaning donors
sometimes set up, but which often
hamper the library’s disposal of
reading material to the best ad
vantage.
Mrs. Edmondson reaves College
Station soon to join Dr. Edmond
son of the A. & M. College Math
ematics department who has taken
a position in the Applied Physics
Laboratory of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity in Silver Springs, Mary
land.
Growing pines as a crop will
create new wealth in the cutover
pine regrions.
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Community Picnic
Sponsored By
Recreation Council
Approximately 350 persons at
tended the community picnic held
Friday evening, June 15, at the
Grove, under the auspices of the
College Station Recreation Coun
cil.
A softball team composed of
men from the A. & M. Presbyterian
Church defeated a First Baptist
Church team 16-14 in the feature
attraction of the affair. Entertain
ment for the younger people was
provided through skating on the
concrete slab, and a special demon
stration of folk dancing was given
during the evening. Basket suppers
were spread under the trees after
the softball game.
Plans are being made as the
BATTALION goes to press for a
College Station softball league in
which both adults and boys will
participate. Swimming classes for
beginners and advanced swimmers
are being held under the tutelage
of Art Adamson at the Downs
Natatorium. Other activities in
cluded in the program to be head
ed by C. E. Tishler are competitive
volley ball, tennis, and skating.
—BOOKS—
(Continued From Page 2)
the United States, in the two de
cadets between the wars, errors
which helped to bring on the sec
ond World War. Part IV, “After
Victory”, concerns itself with the
viewpoints and needs of the great
Allied powers and the problems we
face in future relations with Latin
America. Since this book was writ
ten before the Moscow agreement
of October, 1943, the hope of lasting
unity among the victors was doubt
ful. The author closes his preface
with these remarks, I quote, “It is
the task not only of the national
leaders and diplomats, but of the
average American to whom these
pages are addressed. For those
who strive to avoid this time the
sins and follies of the last post
war period can succeed only with
the support of public opinion in
this country”.
In 1943 the Twentieth Century
Fund, a non-profit organization,
published a volume by Dr. Lewis
L. Lorwin, entitled “Postwar plans
of the United Nations”. This is,
as some of the other books, a sur
vey of the postwar plans of the
United Nations, in an effort to in
form the public about the problems
that we are now facing and will
have to face when final victory is
won over Japan and how these
problems will be solved. The au-
PENNY’S SERENADE
By W. L. Penberthy
Whenever I am prone to make
an excuse for not doing something
I should have done I think of the
story, told me by
a friend, of the
professional base
ball manager who
had the reputa
tion of hating
excuses and be
ing hard on play
ers who made ex
cuses when they
erred. This man
ager, in many in
stances, would
bait a player into
making an excuse
and then really take him to task.
The story goes that during spring
training, a first baseman who was
particularly anxious to make the
team had a very bad inning in
which he “booted” about four balls.
When the team at bat was final
ly retired and the players were re
turning to their dugout, the man
ager singled out the rookie and
tried to bait him into making ex-
Penberthy
cuses by asking: “What’s the mat^
ter, are you having a bad day?'
“Naw,” replied the rookie, “I can
boot ’em twice that high.” by that
remark the rookie won the re
spect of the manager and a place
on the team.
Getting the job done is usually
a task—making excuses comes
pretty easy. The most common ex
cuse we hear is that “I didn’t
have enough time.” Really I feel
that when we fail, it is not a
case' of not having enough time—
it is a case of “not enough desire”
because I know in my own case
and those I observe that we can
always find the time to do the
things we want to do.
Doing a job well is a fine habit
to acquire and one that will afford
a world of satisfaction. And I
don’t know of a finer compliment
than can be paid us than to have
it said that we will do what it
takes to do the job well regard
less of the difficulty of the job or
the pay involved.
Aggie Players Take
Half-Hour Slot On
WTAW Tuesdays
The Aggie players, now broad
casting over Station WTAW ev
ery Tuesday afternoon from 4:00
to 4:15 will take over a half-hour
spot beginning next week. The
new time will be 3:45 to 4:15 and
a corresponding increase in the
quality of the show is anticipated
with the addeo time. The series
now under way is about America’s
Bill of Rights to the Constitution.
Stories of how the various rights
were gained are dramatized and
enacted by the players, making
an interesting as well an informa
tive program. Programs already
presented in this series are Free
dom of Speech and Freedom of
the Press. Next Tuesday’s pro
gram will be on Freedom of Wor
ship.
Members of the Aggie players
include Sybil Bannister, Marjorie
thor gives us here a scholarly trea
tise on the way in which the mem
bers of the United Nations plan
to organize their own countries
after the war and to coordinate
their national policies for purpose
of international cooperation.
All of the books mentioned here
are to be found in the College
Library.
New Drawing Courses
Added to Curriculum
Several Drawing courses have
been added to the list of technical
electives and will be included in
the sixty-ninth college catalog.
Many young engineers enter the
engineering profession by way of
the drafting room where they re
ceive excellent training in machine
shop processes, methods of con-
truction, materials, etc. These
courses provide an opportunity for
students to get training beyond
mere fundamentals that are de
signed to meet the needs of post
war industrial drafting. These new
courses include: Marine and Naval
Drafting; Lay-off and Mold Loft
Drafting; Production Drafting;
Engineering Lettering and Sketch
ing; Electrical Drafting; Piping
Drawings and Layouts.
Wipprecht, Rosemary Fountain,
Francis Eaton, John Stiles, Mark
Halleck, Bob Nevin, Harold
Borofsky, James Birdwell, Bill
Guthrie, Bill Thomas and Con
rad Lamon. Melvin Vandenbark is
script writer and J. Q. Spriggs is
director.
“Legend of Dust”, a verse play
for women, will be broadcast at
7:00 p.m. next Thursday.
Anyone interested in becoming
a member of the group is cordially
invited to come to the WTAW
studios on the third floor of the
Administration Building at 7:30
p.m. Monday night.
BOOjK SALE
The Exchange Store has accumulated many books,
covering a wide field of subjects, which have
gone out of current use as text books.
These books have been marked down 50% to 75% from
former price and placed on display tables.
Come in and browse to your hearts content—Take ad
vantage of this opportunity to add to your
Library.
CLOSE OUT ON ODD SHIRT LOTS
We have several lots of broken sizes in both of
ficers’ shirts and men’s white dress shirts. Pop
ular sizes are gone but for the “hard-to-fit”
man, this is the chance to get that odd size.
Many other broken lots and close outs now on display.
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