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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1946)
Page 2 The Battalion Monday Afternoon, March 25, 1946 Golf Course? ... What happened to the proposed golf course for the Ag gies? Spring is rapidly coming to the campus, and with the budding trees, blooming flowers, et al, a lot of men around here just naturally start thiifking about getting out the woods, iron, and putters and polishing them in preparation for the game they like best of all. Since the Board of Directors authorized a seventy thousand dollar allotment for improving the A. & M. Col lege’s recreational facilities early last fall, there hasn’t been a bit of construction done. A committee for planning the uses of the money placed the golf course as number one on the list, with a major part of the allotment going toward the improvement of the meadows south of the main drive. Other colleges have their golf teams practicing on their own collegiate green; then why can’t Aggieland do the same in the very near future? Man, Your Manners By I. Sherwood —— — r : '£«*•*» *• - _JL / Aggie House—Marms (EDITOR’S NOTE: Presented herewith is the second of - a series of thumbnail sketches on the house masters in charge of the non-military dormitories on the campus.) WILLIAM F. (BILL) BANKS is 23 years old, from Cleburne, Texas, taking Physics. He entered the service in February, 1943 as a private and was discharged in April, 1945 as a second lieutenant. Served six months in the European Theatre with the Second Division of the 23rd Infantry, receiving one campaign star and the Purple Heart. Housemaster for Mitchell Hall and lives in Room 39. (Next issue: D. R. Sutherland). DDT Dusting Used On Black Gnats In Experiment How wartime equipment can be adapted to peacetime use was de monstrated on the Navasota River near Millican last week by attaches of the Bureau of Entomology in an effort to halt an infestation of black gnats that have been known to destroy livestock, dogs and wild game. W. L. Barrett of the Dallas of fice of the USDA and C. C. Deonier of Orlando, Florida, were here working with Dr. S. W. Bil- sing of the Texas A. & M. College department of entomology on the Alec Moody place near Millican. About 600 acres in the area were sprayed with DDT, the new insecticide, from an army plane with special equipment. Another method employed to protect. live stock against the ravages of the black gnats was the earosol meth od of treating the animals with a fog generated with special equip ment. The scientists discovered that the gnats’ larvae is in the stream, and when the eggs hatch the black gnats attack animals of all kinds in the immediate vicinity. They collect in the nostrils of the animal and their blood-sucking technique or their suffocating numbers often proves fatal. According to Dr. Bilsing the vis iting entomologists were not able to report on the effectiveness of the treatments, but the tests did open up a new line of research on the use of the airplane dusting and earosol methods of combatting pest infestation. Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Office, Room 5, Administration Building Telephone 4-5444. Texas A. & M. College The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station is published three times weekly, and circulated on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday aft ernoons. Member Associated Cr>tle6iate Press Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Subscription rate 3.00 per school year. Advertising rates upon request. Represented nationally by National Ad vertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Sam Nixon i... Editor Marion Pugh Sports Editor Charlie Weinbaum As. Sports Editor Wendell McClure Adver. Manager Museum Displays Poisonous Plants One of the largest collections of poisonous plants ever brought to gether in the Southwest will be on display in the A. & M. College Mu seum for the next three weeks. This display is to bring certain plants of a whole State to a class in Bot any at A. & M. For the three weeks these students will have the rare chance of studying the plants themselves and becoming acquaint ed with plants that they must FEATURES Bugs Bunny Joins Aggies In Singing The Railroad Song ‘Tve been working on the rail road ...” were the not-so-melodi- ous strains emanating from Guion Hall yesterday and today. And it was none other than the perennial favorite, Bugs Bunny, who gained the approval of every Aggie wit nessing the show. Naturally, he held up a large sign with the let ters “P. U.” very plainly emblaz oned on it. Best cartoon that’s been here in a long time. know before they can qualify for grades. The public is invited to see this collection and to see what makes the Aggie the man with the information. The class for which this show is being made is Biology 102, Taxonomy of Flowering Plants, with Dr. J. J. Sperry in command of 88 students. The exhibit will last only three weeks. All are invited. The Museum is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each Picnic manners: Although most picnickers are careful about put ting out fires, there are njany who seem utterly unaware that leaving an untidy mess is pretty poor thanks for the use of a beautiful park or roadside space. When you eat a lunch on the roadside or at picnic grounds you need not observe all of the table manners you do at home but don’t omit good behavior. Untidiness and actions of poor taste will be Mexican Movie to Be Shown April 3 A movie, filmed in Mexico by Otto Mayer and sponsored by the Spanish and Latin American clubs, will be shown free of charge in the Lecture Room of the Chemis- day, but is closed Saturday after noons and Sundays. The display is from the S. M. Tracy Herbarium and was arranged by the Botanist in charge. just as unpleasant on a picnic as anywhere else. All the etiquette books say fried chicken, at a picnic, may be eaten in your fingers—that, however, should not be the only motive for a picnic. Picnics should furnish relaxation and recreation and the chance to enjoy, with others, a lovely spot. A picnic is just about the best way for an organization or club to have an annual get-together. try building Wednesday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m. Filmed in natural color, the movie is set to music and narrat ed by Mayer. It was taken last summer in parts of central, south ern, and southeastern Mexico, in cluding Mexico City, the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco, Taxco, Patzquero and shows scenes from the Aztec Sacrificial dance at the Pyramid of the Sun, the Mexico City bull ring, and various snow capped volcanos and rare tropical flowers. WOOL SUN TANS Zubik’s have just received 100% wool Sun Tan material in tropical worsted and gaberdine. — PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW — VETERANS This material makes up into a fine pair of civilian trousers. ZUBIK & SONS UNIFORM SPECIALISTS 1896 — 50 Years of Tailoring — 1946 WATCH REPAIRING ONE-WEEK SERVICE All Work Guaranteed T.C.HINMAN Jewelry Store and Watch Repair in the LAUTERSTEIN Bldg. ,.v ■■u -y; r f- AWARD FOR SERVICE A sleeping village in the path of a rag ing flood ... at her switchboard an operator makes call after call to alert the community and summon aid. She leaves only when rising waters reach the board and the building itself be comes flooded. For this and similar acts of public service, more than 1,200 telephone men and women have received the Bell System’s most coveted award—the Theodore N. Vail Medal. Service to the public has long been a tra dition in the Bell System. The thought ”service first”—day by day as well as in emergencies— has helped give this nation the best communi cations service in the world. ; i' .% ■ &.A f rA 'St •-i % BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM