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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 25, 1946
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Cotton Tourists
Back at College
After 6000 Miles
The Twelfth Annual Cotton
Study Tour ended at College Sta
tion recently for a group of four
lucky Agronomy Students who in
30 days had traveled almost 6,-
000 miles by automobile in about
20 Eastern States and the District
of Columbia studying cotton and
agriculture in general.
Howard Anderson of Grandfalls,
Edwin Melson of Mt. Vernon, Le
roy Hendrick of McKinney, and
Martin Vick of Conroe were the
winners of the 1946 tour in com
petition open to all Junior and
Senior members of the Agronomy
Society. An examination com
posed of questions of which 60%
were in Cotton and cotton pro
duction and 40% were on general
agriculture was used this year to
determine the winners.
The group visited soil stations
at Mississippi State College, Ala
bama Polytechnical Institute, the
Southern Piedmont Experiment
Station near Athens, Ga., Cornell
University, Iowa State College,
and the Great Plains Experiment
Station at Woodward, Okla.
Of special interest because of its
important possibilities and very in
teresting research was the South
ern Regional Research Laboratory
of New Orleans. Equally inter
esting and instructive was the U.
S. Bureau of Plant Industry at
Beltsville, Md., the American Vis
cose Corporation’s Rayon mill at
Roanoke, Va., the Stock Exchange
of New York City, and the Corn
and Grain Exchange at Chicago.
The Cotton Study Tour is spon
sored annually by the Student
Agronomy Society of A&M, all
expenses being met by proceeds
derived from the famed Annual
Cotton Pageant, Style Show, And
Ball presented each year by the
society. The activities had been
suspended for the duration of the
war, this year’s being the first
since 1941. Most previous trips
have been made to foreign coun
tries, but due to uncertain trans
portation conditions this year’s
tour was made domestically.
E. F. Kipling ’30
Held Top Role in
Development of DDT
A 36-year-old graduate of Texas
A. & M. College played an impor
tant part in the development of
DDT insecticides, according to Dr.
S. W. Bilsing, head of the A. & M.
entomology department. Infor
mation heretofore withheld from
the public due to wartime secrecy
indicates that Edward F. Knipling,
native of Port Lavaca, was direct
or of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture Laboratory at
Orlando, Florida, which developed
the now-famous DDT insecticides
from the original 100 pounds of
Neocid, first DDT fertilizer,
brought to this country by a Swiss
firm, the Geigy Company.
Vets Club to Meet
Friday Night
The Ex-Servicemen’s Club will
have a short meeting tomorrow
night at 7:30 p.m. in the assembly
hall. The mess hall committee will
report.
The Mess hall committee met
with Mr. Zinn and Mr. Holmgreen
Tuesday morning. The results of
this meeting will be announced at
the meeting Friday night.
CAMERA CLUB
The A&M Camera Club will have
its regular meeting on Wednesday
July 31st at 7:30 in the basement
of Guion Hal.l All members and
any students who are interested in
photography are urged to attend
and hear the first of a group of
illustrated lectures on the art.
VETS WIVES TO MEET,
The Ex-Servicemen’s Wives’
Club will have a short business
meeting before the bridge club
meeting on Thursday August 8th
at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Rex Kelso, presi
dent of the organization urges ev
eryone to be there in order to make
plans for the fall activities.
Engineering Drawing Dept.
John P. Oliver, associate pro
fessor of engineering drawing at
Texas A. & M. College, will re
turn to duty September 1 after
3 years military leave. He was
separated from the army last
week, with the rank of captain.
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“TWO CONVENIENT STORES’’
COLLEGE STATION BRYAN
BACK IN BUSINESS!
&0 yod 'tlf<3e/e <7y
We Can Sell G. I.’s Direct!
Also TOP PRICES paid for new and used books,
drawing instruments and slide rules.
LOUPOT’S TRADING POST
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Campus Bride Operetta Star
Mariam Forman of Hart Hall, who will sing Josephine in H. M.
S. Pinafore.
By Kathy Wilson
In a little honeymoon room in
Hart Hall Jack Forman does the
dishes while his bride Mariam
practices her “do-re-me’s” for the
operetta H. M. S. Pinafore. For
man says his little bride can’t cook
but “brother, can she sing!”
It all started when the ex-cap-
tain came back from overseas and
discovered that his buddy had a
little sister. Time passed, and this
spring found Mariam, then Miss
Mariam Brounes of Houston, rep
resenting the Hillel Club at the
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specialized and general fields, two
courses of study be provided for
£he student to choose from.
Other suggestions included the
return of mess hall feeding to the
family style; the construction of
an outdoor swimming pool; the
reorganization and proper guid
ing of the Ex-servicemen’s Or
ganization, steering clear of all
problems other than local; and,
admitting women students to the
long term semesters, making the
college co-educational.
Tabulations
Some 200 ballots were used in
making the poll. The following are
results for the state wide cam
paigns tabulated by percentages:
For Senator:
Laverne Somerville 5
A. B. (Cyclone) Davis 3.9
Tom Connally 92.8
Terrell Sledge 1.7
Floyd E. Ryan 1.1
For Governor:
Coke Stevenson (write in) .. .5
Beauford Jester 19.5
Grover Sellers 4.7
Floyd Brinkley 5
John Lee Smith 4 2.6
Jerry Sadler i 4.7
Homer P. Rainey 67.4
For Lieutenant Governor:
Allan Shivers 30.5
Larry Mills 7.1
Jo Ed Winfree 9.1
Boyce House 44.2
Turner Walker 9.1
For Comptroller of Public Accts.
George H. Sheppard 82.9
Clifford E. Butler 17.1
For State Treasurer:
Clarence Williams 21
Jesse James 79
For Attorney General:
Pat M. Neff, Jr 57.2
Price Daniel 42.8
For Commissioner of Agriculture:
J. E. McDonald 45.9
W. R. Chambers 29.3
Benjamin F. Hill 14.3
R. E. McDonald 10.5
For Railroad Commissioner:
Ike Lyons 5.8
Mac Coker 14.9
Olin Culberson 79.3
Candidates listed above were
those receiving votes in the poll.
Candidates were listed on the poll
ballot in order of their appearance
on the state ballot.
Cotton Pageant with Jack Forman
escorting her. That was on April
12. On May 19 the rains came to
Houston and the roads in and out
of town resembled the mighty
Brazos but the wedding bells rang
anyway for our singing star and
Aggie-ex.
Mrs. Forman came to the campus
and Jack by way of Houston
where she graduated from San
Jacinto High School in 1942 and
was well known for her vocal tal
ents in school activities. She con
tinued her studies in the Univer
sity of Houston for a year and then
went to New York to the Julliard
School of Music and Columbia Uni
versity for the following three
years. Last August the talented
young singer returned to Houston
to appear with the Houston Sym
phony Orchestra in concert.
Wm. L. POWERS
A university graduate. For
mer County Supt. of Brazos
Co. and experienced rural
teacher solicits your careful,
consideration and vote for
County School
Superintendent
in the Democratic Primary
July 27
(Paid Political Adv.)
Teachers Wanted
Universities and Colleges all
over the country are asking
us for instructors, Assistant
professors, associate profes
sors and professors. All Fields.
Part time instructors also:
Salaries $2500 to $6000 and
up.
Second and
Elementary
Hundreds of vacancies includ
ing Pacific Coast States and
others with high Salary
Schedules—$2000 to $3000
and up according to qualifica
tions. Supervisors, Critic
Teachers in great demand.
Cline Teachers Agcy.
East Lansing, Michigan
W. L E (bI) MOORE
Washington Univ.
Aero Engineer Joins
College Staff Here
Claude M. Fligg, widely-
known in the national aeronau
tics field, has accepted a post as
professor of aeronautical engin
eering at Texas A. & M. College,
it was announced today by R. M.
Pinkerton, head of the aero de-.
partment.
Fligg, recently separated from
the navy with the rank of com
mander, is a 1930 graduate of the
University of Washington. He
worked with Boeing Aircraft for
four years, was with the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronau
tics at Langley field, Virginia,
for three years, and served for
three years as a project engineer
determining airworthiness of new
plane designs for the Civil Aero
nautics Authority.
Appointment of Fligg still
leaves the aero department short
of teaching personnel, Pinkerton
said, since Associate Professor
Paul Higgins has resigned to re
main with Boeing Aircraft in a
position he held during the war.
RADIO BUGS TO PLAN
FALL ACTIVITIES
There will be a meeting of the
Texas A&M Radio Club Wednesday
evening, July 31, in the E. E.
Building. Plans for the fall semes
ter will he discussed. All members
and those interested in joining the
club are urged to attend.
CHEM SOCIETY PLANS
DINNER FOR JENSEN
The A&M Student Chapter of
the American Chemical Soicety is
giving a dinner at the Aggieland
Inn, Monday, July 39, at 6:30 p.m.,
honoring Dr. F. W. Jensen and his
family. Dr. Jensen is the faculty
advisor and has entertained the
group many times at his home and
expended much personal energy in
developing and organizing the
Student Chapter.
Forest Movie
Given Preview
At College
The Texas Forest Service's new
est motion picture, “Which He
Hath Planted,” was given a
“sneak” preview this week at the
Forest Service office at College
Station.
The picture, all in color and
sound, is based on Bible quotations
about trees and forest fires. A
special feature of the production
is the original musical score writ
ten by Larry Jene Fisher, and
sung by the Prairie View Univer
sity Concert Choir, R. Von Charl
ton, directing.
The film is a blending of beau
tiful scenery and music and the
narration, by Dick Bolin and John
Stiles, Jr., of A. & M. College, is
quoted directly from the Scrip
tures. The Stephen F. Austin High
School Speech Choir, directed by
Miss Johnnie McAdarps, is heard
in a special sequence.
“Which He Hath Planted” is
on 16 millimeter film and the run
ning time is approximately fifteen
minutes. It was written, photo
graphed, produced and directed by
Larry Jehe Fisher, Visual Educa
tion Specialist, supervision by S.
L. Frost, chief of the Division of
Education and Information and W.
E. White, director, Texas Forest
Service, A. & M. College. The
United States Forest Service co
operated in the production.
Release of the picture is sched
uled for October to coincide with
the opening of the National forest
fire prevention program.
Longhorns are being issued in
the Longhorn office in the ground
floor of the Administration Build
ing. All veterans who were in
school February 4 are entitled
to a copy.
Mexico Invites
Thirteen Aggies
To See Country
The Mexican Ministry of Agri
culture through Secretary Marte
R. Gomez today invited tc/i stu
dents and three staff members of
the Texas A&M College to be its
guests on a tour of the Republic’s
agricultural areas from August 26
to September 6, it was announced
by Dean Charles Shepardson of
the school of agriculture.
Upon receipt of the invitation
Dean Shepardson moved swiftly to
start selection of the ten students
to make the trip to Mexico. Any
former undergraduate agricultural
students of the college is eligible
provided he intends to return to
school in September to continue his
studies.
Applicants for places on the
trip must have their letters of ap
plication in Dean Shepardson’s of
fice not later than August 5, and
selection will be based on academic
record, student activities, and the
recommendation of heads of de
partments in the major study of
the student.
The Asbury browsing room, on
the third floor of the college li
brary, contains many novels and
other non-technical books for cas
ual reading.
VOTE FOR
JESS H. WADE
Candidate for
COMMISSIONER
Precinct No. 1
Honest and Capable
Gassed Veteran World
War I
(Political Adv. Paid for by Veterans
of World War I)
On this year's vacation highways
Fill up with the Gasoline that says - j
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Fill Up At This Pump
Under Any Humble Sign-
Make this year’s holiday trip a pleas
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same fine gasoline at Humble signs
along your way.
You’ll notice—you’ll be pleased with
—the improved performance of your
car. Your knockfree engine will purr
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you’ll get the power of a Sampson on
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mechanic will tell you, the patented
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eliminate the motor troubles which
result from gum and carbon.
An Ex-Aggie as Your
REPRESENTATIVE
Texas Legislature
26th District
Composed of—
Brazos and Grimes Counties.
Graduate Class ’40. Former
Teacher Business Law and Eco
nomics, A. & M. College.
World War II Veteran. For
eign Service.
Fully Qualified to Serve You.
(Paid Pol. Adv. By Friends of
W. T. “Bill” Moore)
You'll find Esso Extra the
same fine gasoline at
every Humble sign. When
you use it this summer on
your vacation, you'll con
tinue to use it when you
get home!
Make it fun to drive your car this
summer; fill up with fSSOextra at
«very stop—let’s go!
CLEAN REST ROOMS AND FRIENDLY
SERVICE AT EVERY HUMBLE SIGN
HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY
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