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Page 4 THE BATTALION THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 12, 1946 pPag< “I'll Ireco inon whi( s ing , Jand tpatt tby \ ^ca ; a r not ifeel i \whe (8Xp] f sthe %ori fsom t3hoi cthin gCons iwhe aneet c the c stiti ■,mee ^Ex-I ]cam spne f leste b-eal jgroi < dnvd ‘pen ‘pan jthei isult ! be ’ <the thii i so sho the get Nei old- sho din pie; ing Sor tioi des as mo tre: anc ing low stu grc the sue to ing a a we- doi car ha] are bei A PI D; i leg mu Sal Sbi kin dat A£ Ml 1 chE Tu imi in AD gir re| fre vit ] to fic pr< ide vit Of Te: tht Ch AT. vr CE U. P4 w: w] FB Campus Religious Groups Foster Spiritual Growth Among Students The many churches surrounding the campus offer students an ex cellent opportunity to grow spirit ually as well as intellectually in their college life. Virtually all denominations are represented in the immediate col lege area, with both churches and religious leaders easily available to all students. Most are located in the north gate region, including the Roman Catholic Chapel, the Metho dist Church, the Church of Christ, the Christian Church, and the Bap tist Church. In the absence of their own build ings, many denominations utilize the Y.M.C.A. Chapel and Assembly Room. The Christian Scientist, Jewish, Presbyterian groups will use the Y.M.C.A. facilities for worship during the coming year. WASH and GREASE BOTH ^ 1 ONLY y This is a real bargain in a double feature because both are as good as money can buy. Drive in today* or let us call for and deliver your car. Aggieland Service Station & Garage CHURCH SCHEDULES ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH Rev. Orin G. Helvey, Chaplin Phone 4-9404 The Chapel is located on the south side of the campus, directly across the drill field from the new Mess Hall. The schedule for Sun day Services is as follows: Holy Communion—9:00 a. m. Coffee Club—9:45 a. m. Church School—9:45 a. m. Morning Prayer & Sermon— 11:00 a. m. Young People’s Service League— 6:30 p. m. THE METHODIST CHURCH and WESLEY FOUNDATION Rev. R. C. Terry, Pastor-Director Phone 4-4874 The Methodist Church is located near the north gate of the campus. Its schedule of services is as fol lows: 9:45—Church School. 10:50—Morning Worship. 6:15—Wesley Foundation (Stu dents) 7:15—Evening Worship. 7:15—Mid-Week Devotion (Wednesday) 7:00—Choir practice (Thursday) THE HIILEL CLUB A fully accredited unit of the National Hillel Foundation is or ganized at A. & M. College. ST. MARY’S CHAPEL Rt. Rev. J. B. Gleissner and Rev. T. J. Valenta, Chaplains Phone 2-2659 The Catholic Church is located near the north entrance to the com- pus. The order of service is as fol lows: 9:00—Mass, Sermon, and Holy Communion. 10:30—Mass, Sermon, and Holy Communion. Confessions will be heard before Mass on Sunday mornings. THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Norman Anderson, Pastor Residence Phone 4-6189 Office Phone 4-9207 The services of the Presbyterian Church are held in the Y.M.C.A. Chapel. The evening service in the Y.M.C.A. Chapel. 9:45 a. m. Sunday School Y.M. C.A. Chapel. 11:00 a. m.—Morning Worship, Y.M.C.A. Chapel. Student League 6:30 in the Y. M.C.A. Chapel. Student Forum 7:30 in the Y.M. C. A. Chapel. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH Christian Science services are held every Sunday morning in the Y.M.C.A. parlor at eleven o’clock. A college organization is at pre sent being formed on the campus. Mrs. N. M. McGinnis, Phone 4-7364. THE CHURCH OF CHRIST Mr. Holland L. Loring Acting Phone 4-1163 The Church of Christ and minis ter’s residence are located one block north of the Post Office at the north entrance. The services are as follows: 9:45 a. m.—Bible Classes. 10:45 a. m.—Morning Worship 6:15 p. m.—After supper discus sion. 7:15 p. m.—Evening Worship. Wednesday evenings— 7:15 p. m.—Prayer meeting. JEWISH SERVICES Mrs. J. J. Taubenhaus, Sponsor Jewish Religious Services (Y.M. C.A. Chapel) every Friday evening, 7:00 p. m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. R. L. Brown, Pastor Phone 4-8226 Res. 4-1197 The church is located one block north of the Post Office at the North Gate. Schedule of services: ' Sunday: 9:45 a. m.—Sunday School 10:50 a. m.—Morning Worship services. 6:1b n. m. Training Union 7:15 p. m.—Evening Woship ser vices. * Wednesday. 7:15 p. m.—Prayer service Fri lay: 7:00 p. m.—B.S.U. Council. FIRvlT CHRISTIAN CHURCH S. College and 27th, Bryan Rev. Francis J. Smythe, Pastor The Christian Church boys catch the bus at the “Y” Station to at tend the services in Bryan. The church is located on the bus line. Free tokens are supplied those boys who attend regularly. 9:45 a. m.—Sunday School. 10:50 a. m.—Communion and Morining Worship. 6:00 p. m.—Young People’s Christian Endeavor. 7:00 p. m.—Evening Worship. The A. & M. Sunday School class and the Christian Endeavor are active organizations which you will enjoy attending. LUTHERANS F. J. Mgebroff, Minister Sunday School and Student Bible Classes are held each Sun day in the Y.M.C.A. Assembly Room. A cordial welcome to wor ship with us is extended to all. GI Bill of Rights to Give Pilot Training Flight training will be taught, this semester at the A&M College Airport according to an announce ment by Dean H. W. Barlow, School of Engineering. Officially known as Aero 221, this course is commonly referred to as. the pri vate pilot’s course. The private pilot’s course in cludes 45 hours of flying and 36 hours of ground school instruction. The cost of this course is $490.80. Veterans are eligible to take flight training and to have the costs de frayed under the provisions of the G. I. Bill. Only students with a classification of sophomore or bet ter are eligible. All flight instruction will be given at Easterwood Field, the college airport. Transportation to and from the main campus is pro vided for those taking flight courses. All students who have register ed for Aero 221 and those who are interested in taking the course are requested to meet in the Petro leum Engineering Lecture Room at 7:30 P.M. on September 13. Help, Help, Help If you have had experience as a linotype operator, print shpp floorman or a press feeder, and would like to work in the after noons or at night, contact Mr. J. W. Hall of the A&M Press. His office is in the basement of the Administration Building. Welcome Aggies to POP SHAW’S Sandwich Shop East Gate PROMPT Delivery of TAILOR-MADE JUNIOR and SENIOR UNIFORMS Made to Fit Correctly SMITH’S North Gate Phone 4-4444 WANTED USED BOOKS OF ALL SUBJECTS OFFERED Freshmen and Sophomore Books Are Especially Needed DRAWING INSTRUMENTS and SUPPLIES Publishers are filling orders between dates of Sept. 15 and Oct. 15, so let Loupot wire for your books. You only furnish title, author and publisher. Loupot has FLUORESCENT TABLE LAMPS While They Last $9.95 Thirty Year Struggle Pays Off $2,500 to Ag Man for Wheat 460 Prefab Units to Ease Vets’ Housing Four hundred and sixty vet erans 'and their families will have their housing worries solved when the Federal Housing Project on the old cavalry drill field is .completed. Present plans call for the con struction of 460 prefabricated ap artments. Construction has already started and it is hoped that they will be ready for occupancy by December 1. It is expected that veterans and their families now occupying Hart Hall will be placed in new living quarters by the end of the spring semester. Hart Hall will then be occupied by single students. Walton Hall will also be converted to the use of single students by the open ing of the fall term in September 1947. Housing shortages were eased somewhat by the acquisition of housing space at Bryan Field, now known as the Texas A&M College Annex. The Annex will house some 1100 students. Two areas have been set aside for trailer camps at the Annex. Even though most every type of facility is being utilized to house married veterans there is still not enough housing available. At pre sent they are occupying prefabric ated apartments, project houses, trailer houses and dormitories. Range Management Course Offered Texas, the largest range state, henceforth will train its own range management specialists it was an nounced here by Dean Charles N. Shepardson of the Texas A. & M. College school of agriculture. The range management depart ment already has admitted 25 stu dents from among upper classes, and freshmen will be able to regis ter for the course when the fall semester beings Setember 9. As an author we have never written anything that will live. But, when it come to a question of whether our writings shall live, or we shall live, we’ll sacrifice our writings. Edgar S. McFadden, USDA as sociate agronomist in cereal crops and diseases and assigned since 1935 cooperative work with the Texas A&M Agricultural Experi ment Station, has been granted a Distinguished Service Award of $2,500.00 by Reader’s Digest for “his exceptionally meritorius con tribution to public welfare” through making it possible for millions of people to have food to eat today. The award was announced in Reader’s Digest for September with condensation of an article on Mc- Fadden’s 30-year struggle to de velop disease-resistant wheat. This article, “Burbank of the Wheat Field,” by J. D. Ratcliff, was carri ed originally in the Farm Journal for September. Research begun by McFadden in 1916 while still a student at South Dakota State College “has added hundreds of millions of dollars to our national wealth,” and “possibly twenty-five million people who would otherwise be dead or dying of starvation are alive and eating,” Ratcliff said. McFadden used his own meager resources the first several years to develop a cross between Yaro slav emmer, a tough, filbrous, worthless feed wheat, which he had noticed was not attacked by stem rust, and Marquis, a highly popular bread wheat, but not rust resistant. After eight years of practically unaided backyard research, Mc Fadden named his product Hope and, said Ratcliff, “the wheat of fered little more than hope.” It was resistant to stem rust, leaf rust, and five other wheat diseases, but it produced low yields of light weight grain, and it was highly susceptible to spring frosts. It could, however, be crossed with high-yielding bread wheats, a pos sibility scoffed at by plant breed ers when McFadden began his experiments. Since 1929, McFadden has con tinued his wheat breeding experi ments as a plant breeding scientist with the U.S. Department of Agri culture.- Just as World War II started, Ratcliff said, a host of Hope derivatives—grandchildren of McFadden’s original cross—began hitting the market, crowding older, more susceptible varieties out of the wheat fields. Austin wheat, a cross made by McFadden between Hope and Medi terranean, was planted on a million acres in Texas, much of it on land that could never produce wheat before because of the rust pestil ence. Another Hope derivative took over almost all of the California wheat belt. Fifteen million acres are now given over to Hope grand children in the North, Ratcliff said. For all the millions of dollars he has put in the pockets of American farmers, McFadden has profited not one penny. New wheat varie ties are not patentable, Ratcliff pointed out. McFadden lives mod estly in College Station, Texas, now, still fighting man’s bloodless battle for bread. By Producing better grain es pecially adapted to the Texas cli mate, McFadden feels that he might whip the rust problem once and for all. With Texas planted to rust-resistant wheat, the migra tory spores which cause the dis ease will have no place to spend the winter. At that point, Ratcliff said, McFadden’s final victory will be won. Horsley and Morgan Now in Charge of Placement Office Wendell R. Horsley formerly Vice-Director of Student Affairs, is now in charge of the Placement Office in the Administration Build ing. Lucien Morgan, also in the Dean of Men’s Office as an assis tant director, is now associated with Horsley in the new office. The Placement Office acts as an employment agency for A. & M. graduates and former students. For the past year, its main task has been finding positions for vet erans returning from the service. 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