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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Service to the public has long been a tra
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