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Texas A*M The B College Gil ion Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Monday Afternoon, February 25, 1946 Number 27 aggregation on the Sbisa Hall podium this weekend, playing for the Composite Regimental Formal on Friday, March 1, and for a corps ball on Saturday, March 2. Featuring the voice of Boyd Rogers, the 17-piece orchestra played at the Palm Isle Club in Long view, the Humble Club at Baytown, the Houston Stage Canteen, and at military installations all over the state. Designed for the tastes of the Aggie student body, its popularity has increased by leaps and bounds during the wartime years. The orchestra is under the direction of Bill Turner. Welding Contest Open to Aggies Dates for Dairy Short Course Set A five-day training short course is being planned for prospective Dairy Herd Improvement Associa tion supervisors and official test ers, according to J. W. Davis, as sistant dairy husbandman for the A. and M. College Extension Ser vice. The course, which will be conducted by Davis and G. G. Gib son, Extension Service dairy hus bandman, will be held on the cam pus of the A. and M. College of Texas March 4 to 8 inclusive. The wartime manpower short age hampered the maintenance and expansion of Dairy Herd Improve ment Associations in Texas. At present only four are in opera tion, but Davis says that several other groups are awaiting avail ability of qualified testers before forming organizations. The short course is planned as the nucleus of a pool of trained men to serve the associations. A college education is not essen tial to becoming a successful su pervisor, Davis says. Men desir ing to enter this work should have a real interest in dairying, back ed by some practical experience. They also should be qualified to keep accurate feed costs and pro duction records on cows. Candidates for the short course should contact Davis, care of the Extension Service, College Station, for information and application forms. J. W. T. ELROD ADDED TO ENGINEERING STAFF John W. T. Elrod, ex-Aggie and army ordnance expert, has been added to the staff of the Manage ment Engineering department at Texas A. & M. College as an in structor. Elrod, who graduated from Tex as A. & M. in 1936 and received his master’s degree in engineer ing from Purdue in 1938, was re leased from the army just in time to begin teaching during the se mester opening February 4. Called to the service as a first lieutenant in 1940, he rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel while serving in in the Detroit Ordnance District during the war. He headed the Toronto branch office of the De troit district. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE HAS MANY APPLICANTS The A. & M. placement office re ports that over two hundred Vet erans’ wives desire employment as stenographers, file clerks, and in other types of office work. Sev enty five are experienced in taking dictation, in shorthand, typing bookkeeping, and file work. The rest can do everything but write shorthand. Interested employers should see Mr. Hickman of the placement office, or merely run a short want ad. Red Cross Appeals for Volunteer Staff Typists The Brazos County Red Cross Chapter is appealing for volunteer staff assistant workers who can use the typewriter, to work in the Red' Cross office, in the Parker Bldg., in Bryan. With returning veterans, the work in the office has increased in such proportions that extra help is bad ly needed. Anyone who will give as much as three hours a week to the work, will be greatly apprecia ted. BATTALION STAFF In order to permit attendance at the A. & M.-Arkansas bas ketball game, the staff meet ing scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 26 has been postponed until Tuesday, March 5. To stimulate undergradute inter est in welding, funds have been do nated to the American Welding Society for the A. F. Davis Under graduate Welding Award. This award will consist of four cash prizes given annually to authors and publications for the best and second best articles on welding pub lished in undergraduate magazines or papers during the preceding year. Any undergraduate of a col lege, university or institute of technology in the United States or Canada is eligible, but the pa per must be published in an under graduate publication. The A. F. Davis Undergrad uate Welding Award is named for its donor, A. F. Davis, vice-pres ident and secretary of the Lin coln Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio. The purpose is to encourage and stimulate interest in welding thru the preparation of articles on the subject of welding by undergrad uate students, and dissemination of such information through under graduate publications (papers and magazines). ■ The awards will be as follows: With Gen. Ike Eisenhower as honor guest at ceremonies here, memorial services for the seven hundred A. & * M. men who died in military service in World Wars I and TI will be held around the world on Easter morning, April 21, in observance of the forty- fourth traditional Aggie Muster held on the anniversary of the battle of San Jacinto each year since 1903. Keystone in the world-wide ser vices will be the huge memorial Muster to be held at Kyle Field as a climax of the Victory Home coming to be staged on the cam pus April 19, 20, 21. A. & M. men not present for the campus Homecoming will be meeting in similar services throughout the length and breadth of #ie United States and at scores of overseas points. April 21 this year falls on Eas ter Sunday, a time of deep religious $200.00 to the Author of the best paper $200.00 to the Publication $150.00 to the Author of the second best paper $150.00 to the publication A suitable certificate will be giv en to each author and publication receiving awards. In case of joint authorship, the author award shall be given jointly; however, certifi cates will be issued to each author. Subject matter of the paper may be on any phase of any type of welding or its application to de sign and constructions. Any undergraduate of any col lege, university, or institute of technology in the United States, its possessions, or Canada is eli gible. The paper must be publish ed in an undergraduate publication in the interval between July 1st of one year and July 1st of the succeeding year. Six copies of the publication must be forward ed to the office of the American Welding Society marked to the at tention of the Chairman of the Ed ucational Committee.* The judging group shall be se lected by the Educational Commit- significance to men of all faiths. On that day it is fitting that the heroic sacrifices of the war dead be commemorated. On that day it is fitting that 'thanks be offered to God for the contribution of those war dead, and that prayers be said for the comfort of their families and friends. In announcing the suggestion of Easter morning memorial Muster services, Dick Winters, Brady, president Former Students Asso ciation, said, “The Executive Com mittee of the Association realizes that in making this Muster sug gestion something very different from our usual A. & M. affairs is proposed. We feel, however, that since April 21 falls on Easter Sun day, and since every man of us would like to pay deep and sin cere tribute to those seven hun dred Gold Star A. & M. men, this year’s Muster should be one of deep purpose and of religious in- AG EXPERIMENT STAT. RECEIVES $800 GRANT C. H. McDowell, acting director, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, today announced receipt of a grant of $800 from Lederle Lab oratories of Pearl River, N. Y., for research in turkey nutrition. This grant is to cover research to be conducted during the next 12 months, and the experiment will be under the direction of R. M. Sherwood,, chief of the Devision of Poultry Husbandry, and Dr. P. B. Pearson, Station animal nutrition ist. Research to be conducted by the Station involves the role of folic acid in the nutritional require ments of turkeys, McDowell said. Lederle Laboratories also will furnish certain vitamins to be used in the experiment. tee of the American Welding So ciety. The judging shall be based on the originality of the paper and the thoroughness in which the subject is covered. The decision of the judges will be final. The awards are to be known as the “A. F. Davis Undergraduate Welding awards.” terest. It should be the greatest Muster in the 44-year history of that fine tradition.” The huge Victory Homecoming, to be held on the campus April 19, 20, 21, will be institution-wide in scope. Local committees are al ready at work on such items as housing, transportation, meals, fi nancing, program, registration and special services. Complete an nouncement of plans will be made as soon as possible. The Home coming program will be closed with the huge Kyle Field memorial ser vices at 8:30 a. m. on Easter morning, April 21. The general Planning Commit tee for the Homecoming, appoint ed by the Board of Directors of the Association, consists of President Gibb Gilchrist, Honorary Chair man; J. T. L. McNew, Vice Pres ident for Engineering, Chairman; J. P. Hamblen, Houston; and Ford Munnerlyn, College Station. Drama Club Casts For One-Act Play The next meeting of the A. & M. Dramatics Club will be held at the Assembly Hall February 26 at- 7:30 p. m. A one act play will be cast at this meeting and will be presented at the next meeting on March 12. The charter will be presented at the first meeting. Rehearsals for the first play, “You Can’t Take It With You”, are progressing favorably. The play will take place March 26 and March 27. Reserve seat tickets will be on sale in the Rotunda of the Academic building on March 25. All the lighting has arrived, and the scenery is being made rapidly. The set will be completed some time next week. The characters are follows: Pen elope Sycamore, Jane Smith; Es sie, Betty Smith; Rheba, Hazel McClendon; Paul Sycamore, Roy Garner; Mr. De Pinna, John Helm; Ed, Donald Waldrip; Donald, J. D. Strickle; Martin Vanderhof (Grand Pa), Walter Norris; Alice, Mrs. Karl Elmquist; Henderson, Grady Burns; Tony Kirby, Bill Zol- ler; Boris Kolenkhov, Del Runyan; Gay Wellington, Mrs. Carl Ly man; Mr. Kirby, Hal Dungan; Mrs. Kirby, Nancy Tucker; Olga, Sybil Bannister; two detectives, A. D. Carr and Billy Yowell. The scene takes place in the home of Mr. Martin Vanderhof, and the scenery consists of snakes, a xylo phone, a printing press, and in the second act Mrs. Gay Wellington, a drunk actress. Mr. Hood, the director, says, “The play is progressing beautifully and should really be a great success.” Pet. E. Dept. Will Hold Oil Well Talks Newest methods and practices in oil well-logging will be discussed and demonstrated during a series of conferences on the subject to be sponsored here by the Petro leum Engineering department of Texas A. & M. College March Il ls. The conferences are open to all interested. Various methods of well-logging, or determination of sub-surface formations and their contents, will be covered by outstanding repre sentatives of the petroleum indus try. Herbert Guyod, graduate of the St. Etienne (France) School of Mines and well-known logging consultant, will be chief speaker. Accommodations may be reserv ed directly from the LaSalle hotel, Bryan, or the Aggieland Inn on the Texas A. & M. campus, or by writing to Harold Vance, head of the Petroleum Engineering depart ment. The conference program: Mon day, March 11—Well-logging Prob lem and Radioactivity Logging; Tuesday — . Caliper, Geochemical and Permeability Logging; Wednes day—Electrical, Mud and Mechan ical Logging; Thursday — Dip De termination and Electric Log In terpretation; Friday — Tempera ture Logging and Concluding Talk. Field demonstrations will be held during the conference. CORRECTION In last issue’s . V. M. A. article, the dance date was stated to be on April 23. The correct date is March 23. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE BATTALION regrets that unsigned letters cannot be published. The writer’s name will be withheld if requested, but all letters must be signed. Three Day Affair . . . 1946 Muster Plans Take Shape