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The Bat t a 1 i on
Monday Afternoon, May 6, 1946
Man, Your Manners
By I. Sherwood
Contact Lenses Provide Aid
For Flyers With Poor Vision
By W. P. Riley
“What are the expenses of a
bridegroom?”
The bridegroom must pay all of
the following expenses incidental
to his wedding:
The cost of the engagement ring.
The marriage license fee.
The cost of the wedding ring.
The cost of his gift to his bride.
The c^st of his gifts to best man
and ushers.
The cost of ties, gloves, and bou
tonnieres for the best man and
ushers.
The check for the bachelor din
ner.
The cost of the bouquet for his
mother and the bride’s mother.
The clergyman’s fee.
All expenses of the wedding trip.
It is important for the groom
to be informed on wedding eti
quette. The best man has to be in
formed because he is the busiest
man at the wedding.
Why a groom, a normally capable
fellow on other occasions, should
appear so helpless on his wedding
day, may be a matter of tradition,
but it doesn’t make sense; he should
be as interested in his wedding as
the bride, and if he’ll spend just
a fraction of the time she does, in
learning wedding manners, the
guests won’t even notice him.
JAKKULA TO SHOW ^
BRIDGE PICTURES
Dr. A. A. Jakkula, of the En
gineering Experiment Station, will
show his movie film on the failure
of the Tacoma-Narrows Bridge at
a meeting of the American Society
of Civil Engineers scheduled for
7:30 p.m. tomorrow night in the
lecture room of the Civil Engineer
ing Building.
Plans for a trip to the State
Conference of the Society will be
discussed. All engineering students
and faculty members are invited to
attend, and Freshmen and Sopho
mores will be excused from C. Q.
EDITOR’S NOTE: W. P. Riley is a
student in the agricultural journalism
course known as Rural Sociology 415, and
the article below was submitted as a class
paper.
Individuals having only minor ab
normalities of vision and wishing
to learn to fly can take hope since
science has provided a device
known as contact lenses to correct
such abnormalities.
These lenses are made of a
plastic material and shaped to con
form to the eyeball as they are
worn directly over the eye and be
come essentially an integral part
of one’s visual appartus. Being only
the size of the colored part of the
eye, contact lenses are hard to
distinguish from a distance of even
three or four feet. '
Equipment needed consists of a
contact lens for each eye, a small
rubber suction cup similar to the
rubber suction cup on an eye drop
per, and a solution of varying al-
kilinity according to the individ
ual’s metabolistic makeup.
The average person starts wear
ing contacts from two to four
hours at first, and after a period
of from six to eight months can
increase this time to around 48
hours or even longer.
Contacts are rather expensive at
the present time, ranging between
$150 and $200 for the examination
and all, but may in the future be
come very reasonable and eventual
ly replace spectacles as an aid to
better sight for not only flyers
but everyone.
The first social workers in the
Empire State were the Dutch
Sieckentroosters, whose duty it was
to visit sick persons in their
homes.
Classified
Used Microscope, Bausch and Lomb, Low
—High dry and oil immersion lenses, lOx
objective. In excellent condition. Room
404, Dorm 16.
LOST—Tan leather billfold somewhere
between North Gate and College Park on
night of May 1st. Contained very little
money but papers of importance to me.
Name “K. D. Hedgpeth” stamped in gold
letters inner fold and identification card
inside. If found please call K. D. Hedg
peth at Fiscal Dept., 4-8294.
FOR SALE—3 room house on lot 100 by
175 feet four blocks off campus South. In
quire at 108 Montclair.
LOST—Fair glasses, no case, between
Y and New Area. Return to Frank Dyer,
307-4.
Commercial Art Work — Illustrating,
signs, and banners. Jay Cowan, P. O. Box
1871 or A-l Walton.
Equity in 5 room house—Furnished, 408
Montclair, College.
WANTED TO BUY OR RENT—Elec
tric Ice box. Call 4-4404.
WANTED TO SELL CHEAP—New tux
and accessories. J. E. Blanford, K-7 Wal
ton.
New studio couch for sale. K-7 Walton.
FOR SALE—Sealy Mattress. Call 4-615T.
Refresher courses in shorthand, type
writing, and other commercial subjects
start Monday. Phone 2-6655, McKenzie-
Baldwin Business College, 702 S. Washing
ton, Bryan.
THE SCRIBE SHOP. Typing, mimeo
graphing, drawing. Phone 2-6705, 1007 E.
23rd, Bryan.
FOR SALE Transit and Level. See
Marwil, Room 201, Dorm 1.
FLOWERS
FOR
MOTHER
Phone 2-6725 for
Delivery
J .COULTER SMITH
FLORIST
Copyright 1946. Dccrrr & Mvm Tobacco Co.
ROBERT M. MARCOTTE is ma
joring in Mechanical Engineering
under a four-year G. I. Bill en
rollment at Texas A. & M. “Bob”
was discharged from the U. S.
Army in August, 1945 with 86
points after overseas service with
the 4th Infantry Division. He won
the Victory Medal, Purple Heart,
and two battle stars on his ETO
ribbon.
Marcotte is from Temple and is
married to a Temple girl. When
questioned about his reaction to
education under the Gi I. Bill, Bob
says: “My wife is all for it and
Pm all out for this education the
G. I. Bill of Rights way. It’s good
for the nation.”
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