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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1946)
Thursday Morning, April 18, 1946 The Battalion Page 7 A&M Has Sole ASTRP Program For U. S. Army The Army Specialized Training Reserve Program, now in process of being closed out, will be con centrated solely at Texas A. & M. College beginning May 6, it was. announced today by Virgil B. Faires, in charge of the local ASTRP program. Seventy-five advanced ARTRP students from colleges all over the nation are expected to arrive in time for a new term to begin May 6, Faires said, and will join the 50 men now in training here. The students, all under 18, are members of the Enlisted Reserve corps, and are placed on active du ty with the army when they reach their eighteenth birthday, he said. WELCOME EX - AGGIES KENYON AUTO STORES ASSOCIATE South Side — College Station Joe Faulk, Mgr. Class ’38 Air-Conditioned Opens 1:00 P.M. — 4-1181 WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY WALTER WANGER presents a FRITZ LANG production EDWARD G. ROBINSON JOAN BENNETT - ScaxieZ Stieet DAN DURYEA Jess Borker Morgoret Lindsoy Rosalind Ivon Samuel S. Hinds A DIANA PRODUCTION A UNIVERSAL RELEASE — plus 3 Stooges Comedy FRIDAY and SATURDAY Double Feature 1st Attraction 2nd Attraction and Color Cartoon SUNDAY and MONDAY — also — Cartoon - News - Short PENNY’S SERENADE By W. L. Penberthy Our family has gotten a tre mendous kick out of a visit from my aged mother and a sister who live in Ohio. We have been parti cularly interested in their reaction to different things. Although they are very much impressed by the beauty of the Texas wild flowers and our campus, the thing that im presses them most is the friendli ness and the warm hospitality of the fine folks they have met since they arrived. We live awfully close together here at A. & M. and get to know each other mighty well, and without;:|H^ realizing it makes; same very near and dear friends. How-: ever, I don’t think we realize how dear they are until something a little unusual happens to give them an op portunity to show their friendship.' Any number o f times I have heard people who had ex perienced some good fortune o r sorrow remark, “I P® b y just didn’t realize I had so many friends”. I feel that our happiness BROCK NAMED TRUSTEE FOR FINE ARTS GROUP Gene H. Brock, assistant pro fessor of engineering drawing at Texas A. & M. College and an amateur artist of repute, has been named a trustee of the Texas State Fine Arts association, it was an nounced today. The association, which has head quarters at the Elizabeth Ney mu seum at Austin, is active in the promotion of art through its State Art association. is in direct proportion to the friends we have because no world ly goods can compete with friends in giving us the real pleasure of life. The love of friends for each other is the foundation of the “Ag gie Muster”. It was this love that brought our men together during the War under very adverse candi- tions. It is this same love for their friends and a fine institution that fosters sucn friendship that makes our gathering this week such a fine thing and an occasion we will all long remember. A&M Seeks Army Help in Study of Gulf Disturbances Texas A. & M. College, which is going ahead with plans for study ing weather disturbances in the Gulf of Mexico in conjunction with the University of Florida, is hoping to obtain a research project along the same lines from the War De partment New Development labo ratory, it was revealed today by M. C. Hughes, head of the electrical engineering department. Oh a recent visit to Washington, Hughes sat in on a conference with the head of the U. S. Weather bu reau and the army and navy weath er chiefs, and learned that plans are being made to disseminate all weather information gathered by these services to Gulf coast indus tries, in order that the latter may have ample warning of approach ing storms. Meanwhile, a weather station is in operation here, locating and tracking Gulf disturbances, and another will be established soon in the Freeport area. Information gathered is correlated with that obtained at the University of Flo rida’s stations. LAST TIME TODAY “Salome Where She Danced” — with — Yvonne DeCarlo in technicolor THURSDAY ONLY m . MW Peter COE Kay HARDING Martin KOSLECK Virginia CHRISTINE Kurt KATCH FRIDAY and SATURDAY — DOUBLE FEATURE A STRANGE PICTURE FRANCIS LEDERER DOt'O • CDWAftD I CAt»Oi MtlANDfi GH BROMBERG • NAISH • GRANACH A RIPLEY-MONIED Production BOB CMSBY, m McDonald. WALTER CATLETTi KTTf KEAN . . HOWBRAYl iff wnicmcu V/ njNn* - trixu Mm SUNDAY and MONDAY ABLAZE WITH ACTION! EDWARD 6. MARGARET ROBINSON • O’BRIEN rVmes HaveTmiW fitaPi£ JACKIE BUTCH JENKINS AN M*6*MMTURI Also John Nesbitt’s Passing Parade — News We Sf/7/ Remember NO, AGGIES, we haven’t forgotten Reveille. The plans for her monument, to be erected over her grave at the entrance to Kyle Field, are in the hands of the designer. We hope that the memorial will be completed by the time the 1946 football season rolls around. In the meantime, she is enshrined in our memories, as in yours. WILLIAMS TO TEACH AT COLO. TRADE SCHOOL E. L. Williams, director of the Texas A. & M. College Industrial Extension Service, will be a mem ber of the visiting faculty at a trade and industrial course to be held July 22-August 16 at Colorado A. & M. College, located at Fort Collins, Colo. Williams will instruct 2 courses in part-time cooperative training, AGGIE PROF GETS ENGINEERING LICENSE William G. Royland, instructor in the engineering drawing repart- ment at Texas A. & M. College today had become the 6277th li censed professional engineer in Texas. Four years of professional experience are prerequisite to li censing. including related work and admin istration. GOING BY THE NORTH GATE? STOP IN... to see LUKE COURT, Mgr. of COLLEGE STATION SHOE REPAIR SHOP