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Chapel in the Sky ... Page 2 Editorial Texas AiM The B Norton Developments Page 1 Item VOLUME 46 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1947 Number 24 ‘Seniors Graduating by September 1 File Now’, States Placement Office Every senior who expects to graduate before Septem ber 1, 1947 should file a registration record with the Place ment Office in Room 126, Administration Building, W. R. Horsley announced. There is no charge for this service, and many of the present senior class and alumni have taken ad vantage of this opportunity to place their professional qualifi cations on file where they may be supplied quickly when needed. The Placement Office is. trying to develop a complete file on the qualifications and professional pro gress of A. & &M. graduates. When notice is received of a job which offers an unusually good salary and professional opportun ity, those qualified and interested can be notified quickly, Horsley added. In order to help seniors and alumni present their qualifications to prospective employers in well- organized form, the Placement Of fice prepares a set of credentials for each man who requests it. These credentials are developed from the registration record and include a personnel leaflet (de scribing the man’s background and training), a summary of the opin ions of his references, a tran script of his credits, and a letter of recommendation from the Placement Officer. These are sent to the employer on request in a distinctive cover featuring the A. & M. colors and seaL This service is provided without charge except for the personnel leaflets, which are furnished at cost. Placement Office personnel are also available to help^ the indi vidual in .preparing application letters or for interviews. It is to the advantage of all graduates to make use of this service. Those students who have not registered, are urged to do so im mediately. Jones Appointed Asst. Director of Experiment Station Dr. Sloan E. Jones has been ap pointed assistant director of the A. & M. Agricultural Experiment Station, effective January 1, Dir ector R. D. Lewis has announced. Dr. Jones has been superintendent of the substation at Ysleta since 1942. There are 34 research centers in the Agricultural Experiment Sta tion. These include A. & M.’s main station, 21 substations and 12 field laboratories. As assist ant director, Dr. Jones will visit each of these centers several times a year, and aid in planning, staff ing, correlating and interpreting their needs and activities, Director Lewis said. A graduate of Clemson College and South'Carolina, Dr. Jones ob tained his masters degree from A. & M. in 1929 and his doctorate at Iowa State College in 1940. He has been a member of the Ex periment Station staff since 1928. First Ysleta Superintendent When the Ysleta substation was started, he was appointed the first superintendent. Under his lead ership,, the station has become out standing in investigations relative to long-stapled cotton, alfalfa, pro duction of vegetable seeds, and feeding of livestock, Director Lew is stated. Dr. and Mrs. Jones and their young daughter will reside in the Bryan-College Station community. Chemical Engineer of Wisconsin University To Address Groups Thursday Evening at 8 Dr. K. M. Watson of Wisconsin University’s Department of Chemical Engineering will speak at a joint meeting of the A. & M. Section, the Student AIChE, and the Student Need for Workers With Merit System Council Announced ■♦■Affiliates of the American Chem ical Society on Thursday, January 9. The joint session will take place in the Chemistry Lecture Room at 8 p. m., Fred W. Jensen, Secretary of the Texas A. & M. Section, has announced. Dr. Wat son’s topic will be “Kinetics of Re actions Catalyzed by Solids”. The Merit System Council, serv ing the State Department of Pub lic Welfare and both divisions of the Texas Unemployment Com pensation Commission, the Unem ployment Compensation Division and the State Employment Serv ice Division, is announcing Feb ruary 8 as the date for competitive examinations for positions for which qualified workers are ur gently needed. Successful candi dates will qualify for certification to the agencies for employment as Field Workers, Child Welfare Workers, Maintenance Supervisors, Clerks, Typists, and Stenograph ers, depending upon what exam inations they pass. Entrance salaries range from $1380 for Clerk-Typists to $2160 for Maintenance Supervisors and Clerk I. Meritorius service may be rewarded by increases in sal- a r y and promotion in rank, Charles S. Gardiner, director, announced. Persons interested in these ex aminations may obtain full in formation and application blanks by writing to the Merit System Director, 808 Tribune, Austin 21, Texas. All applications must be filed in the Merit System office or postmarked before midnight of January 13. Dinner at Aggieland Inn There will be the usual dinner in honor of the speaker for mem bers of the three groups and their wives, at the Aggieland Inn at 6:30 p. m. Dr. Watson has writen numer ous papers and articles dealing with Process Engineering and is the co-author of the text, ’’Indus trial Chemical Calculations.” He has had extensive experience since 1930 in the petroleum industry, with the Gulf Oil Corporation, and Universal Oil Products Company, and at present is a consultant for the Research and Development De partment of the Sinclair Refining Company. Lecture Topics In his lecture Dr. Watson will discuss the problems associated with reactions occuring at the sur face of solid catalyst particles. The catalysic problem is complicated by problems of diffusion to and from the catalyst particle and within the pores of the particle, and also by a sequence of chemical steps or dinarily considered to involve ac tivated absorption of the reactants, reaction on the catalyst surface, and desorption of the products. The meeting is open to the pub lic. Even in China Twelve-Year-Olds Whistle It From “The Christian Evangel” Morris S. Burton, an Ex-Aggie, an official of the Gulf States Tele phone Co., of Tyler, Texas, told us a very interesting Aggie story the other day. We pass it on to you. Here is the story: I am sorry I cannot name the Aggie involved. I met him only on one occasion at Kaufman, Tex as at which time he told me the story. All I can remember is that he was a Lt. Colonel. He lived at Denton, Texas and I think he was of the class of ’40. The Lt. Colonel, an Ex-Aggie, was flying over China on a .very important mission. It was under stood that he would be flying over territory in which if he had to land it would probably mean death. Un fortunately engine trouble devel oped. They tried every way to keep from having to land but with out success. They landed. He worked feverishly to repair the ship expecting to be shot any mo ment. Suddenly a twelve year old Chinese boy came walking toward him directly from the woods near by . They were startled to hear him whistling the old Aggie war song. He said his first thought was he was losing his mind. He could not believe what was hap pening. But the boy came direct ly to them and stopped whistling and began to make signs of peace and to follow him. They went to a village nearby where they were royally received and were given a great welcome. Here is the explanation: A Chinese student had attended A & M College and caught the Aggie spirit. He went home and taught the village the old Aggie war song and told them if an American plane ever landed to start singing or whistling the old Aggie song for there would probably be an Aggie on it. The Aggie spirit had reached the heart of China and paved the way for safety and not death. Probably the old Ag gie War Hymn was never more welcomed. Town Hall Presents . . . This Month Frankie Masters To Play Feb. 22 TITO GUIZAR, who is pic tured above, will appear on the stage of Guion Hall on January 30 or 31, under the auspices of Frankie Masters and his or chestra have been booked for George Washington’s Birthday Ball, Joe Skiles, director of Stu dent Activities, has announced. This all-college dance will be held Saturday evening, Feb ruary 22, in Sbisa Hall, with dancing from 9 to 12. On the night before this dance, the Freshman Ball will take place. Washington Rural Health Consultant To Speak Jan. 8-9 Miss Elin Anderson, Rural Health Consultant of the Federal Extension Service, Washington, D. C., will be in College Station, Jan uary 8 and 9 to speak at the gen eral staff conference of the A. & M. College Extension Service. Miss Anderson will discuss Ex tension activities in rural health. The State Health Department, the health specialist of the Farm Home Administration, the Texas Rural Health Committee and the Brazos County Medical Association have been extended invitations to hear Miss Anderson talk and participate in the discussion following. A native of Canada, Miss Ander son did rural health work in sev eral Canadian provinces before coming to the United States. She has also traveled extensively in the Scandinavian countries to observe and gain an understanding of the problems of rural health in those nations. Taking her M. A. degree in so ciology from Columbia University in 1929, Miss Anderson conducted studies on rural health problems in Vermont from 1929 to 1936. In 1939 she initiated a project Medi cal Care and Health for Rural people under the auspices of the Nebraska Extension Service. She joined the Federal Extension staff in 1946, coming from the Farm Foundation in Chicago where she headed the Rural Health and Med ical Services project since 1939. On January 10, Miss Anderson will go to Waco to speak at the annual meeting of the Texas Ag ricultural Workers Association. Town Hall. He will be accom panied by a troupe of 15 Latin American entertainers on both matinee and evening perform ances. Aggies Line Coach May Have Quit\ Says Houston Post The following is a quote from the Monday sports column of Bruce Layer, sports editor of the Houston Post: “According to the dope “Un cle Bill” Jam<js, the likeable line mentor at A. & M., is planning to retire from coaching to de- LINE COACH ? ? ? vote all of his time to his boys camp in the hill country.” The Battalion has had informa tion of this sort ever since Thanks giving Day, but has withheld it pending release from “authorita tive sources”. A telegram query ing Uncle Bill regarding his res ignation has never been answered. Also a telephone conversation with C. W. Crawford, chairman of the Athletic Council, failed to reveal anything. Kiwanis Trustee to Speak January 8 in Sbisa Hall at 7:15 Joe O. Naylor, Kiwanis Inter national trustee, will address the Kiwanis club of College Station at its second anniversary program Wednesday evening, January 8, at 7:15 o’clock in Sbisa Hall. W. D. “Bill” Whalen, district governor, will install new officers, which will include Joe Sorrels, president; Paul Ballance and Sid ney L. Loveless, vice-presidents; S. M. Cleland, secretary; and N. D. Durst, treasurer. Col. Adcock Speaks To Brazos Reserve Officers Wednesday Col. Tom Adcock of the Military Science Department will be guest speaker at a regular meeting of the Brazos County chapter of the Reserve Officers Association. The meeting will be held January 8, at 7:30 p. m. in the Petroleum En gineering lecture room. Regular meetings have been changed from the second Tuesday to the second Wednesday of each month. AVC Pushes Army Pay System for Vets The American Veterans Com mittee (AVC) has urged the Vet erans Administration to adopt a decentralized system of paying subsistence allowances to veter ans attending colleges similar to the payroll system used in the Army so that the payments can be promptly made. An investigation led by Chat Paterson, AVC’s national repre sentative, has revealed that by the present method veterans are un necessarily late receiving their checks. The AVC recommended that a qualified disbursing officer be appointed to make payments of allowances directly to student vet erans; that payroll lists be pre pared monthly from the records of the local VA office; that the disbursing officer receive a sin gle check from the Treasury cov ering the entire payroll; and that the disbursing officer make cash payments as idicated on the pay roll. The AVC is working, also for an increase in subsistence al lowances to $100 for single men and $125 for married men, with an additional allowance of $25 for each child. Possibility High of Norton’s Becoming U. of C. Coach Reports Place Aggie Coach and McKeever, of Cornell, University, As Top Men of List for California Job A story from San Francisco states that speculation is high concerning the possibili ty of Coach Homer Norton’s becoming avail able for the football coaching job at the Uni versity of California. This announcement Physics Dept. Gets Spectrograph from Aviation Factory Research and Teaching Made Possible By New Laboratory Equipment Spectrographic equipment, which during the war was used to test the aluminum and steel that went into North American Aviation's Mustang fighters, is now in opera tion on the A. & M. campus. The complete laboratory was purchased by the college under the govern ment’s surplus property program, and has been set up in the Physics building, for use both in research and in teaching a course in indus trial spectrography. The installation consists of four units: the Dietert spectrograph itself; two transformers which produce the high voltage neces- TT T'k sary for vaporizing metal, and an JLjOCIVC JJOVITIS analyzer which makes possible rapid interpretation of results. Heart of the apparatus is a steel mirror which has been engraved with an incredible 24,000 lines to the inch. The main unit, similar in prin cipal to glass-prism spectrometers, makes photographs of the spec trum of vaporized metals, including ultra-violet and infra-red bands. The analyzer unit makes possible a quick check of the spectrum of the sample against a standard, leading to computation of wave length (chemical composition) and density. Similar devices are used in many industrial plants today by metalurgists, and the “spectro- graphist’ has become a key man in many industries. TwelfthWildlife Conference To Be Held February 3-5 Headquarters in San Antonio’s Plaza Hotel Incentives for wildlife and The more lasting benefits of good land use will be stressed in the Twelfth North American Wildlife Confer ence, to be held February 3-5 in San Antonio, Texas. This an nouncement was made known re cently by Walter P. Taylor, unit leader of the U. S. Department of the Interior. The series of meetings has been correlated for summariza tion by Aldo Leopold under the general theme, .“Americans, Wildlife, and Their Land”. Four speakers will be scheduled for each of the General meetings, and six for each of the Technical sessons. The Wildlife Conference, prob ably the most important *of its kind ever held in the Southwest, will be held in San Antonio’s Plaza Hotel. Persons interested in at tending the meeting are reminded to make reservations early. Houston ASHVE To Hold Talks With Students A group of Houston engineers will be the guests of the A. & M. Student Chapter of the ASHVE, for a round table discussion of the heating and ventalilation field, Thursday night, January 9 at 7:30 in Sbisa Hall. , The engineers, headed by Burt Fisher, are all members of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers. They plan to hold a general survey of the air conditioning and heating fields so that undergraduate students, who are undecided in their major course, may see what these oppor tunities have in store for them. Each engineer will hold a ques tion and answer session which should last about twenty minutes and students will move from table to table. Topics to be discussed include; air distribution, centrifu gal and reciprocating compressor systems, direct fired gas heating, steam and hot water heating, con trols and materials specifications. The idea for the program was originated by Key W. Ryan, pres ident of the A. & M. Chapter. Visiting engineers are Burt Fish er, A. D. Barnes, Fred Brandt, and Reg F. Taylor. Fiscal Office Accepts Fees Beginning Tomorrow Beginning at 8 a. m., Wed nesday, January 8, students now enrolled may pay their fees at the Fiscal office for the spring semester. These fees should be paid prior to January 22, it was stated. For veteran students fee waiver slips may be secured from the Veterans Advisor’s of fice, beginning at the same hour. After payment of fees, dor mitory students should report to Room 100, Goodwin Hall and make room reservations for next semester. came as a result of Coach Norton’s West coast team victory over the Eastern team by a score of 13-9 in the Shrine game. A recent sportscast over a San Antonio radio station broadcast an interview with Norton. Upon being asked by the reporter, “Have you been offered the California coaching job?” the Aggie football coach replied, “I have no statement to make at this time. I’m leaving for New York and the National Coaches Associa tion meeting. And any statement will have to wait until after that time.” To add further confusion, it is widely known that the Board of Regents of the University of California at Berkely have sent their track coach Brutus Hamil ton to the National Coaches As sociation with the purpose in mind of selecting the most likely applicant. In outlining the qualifications Married Vets Turn Okies to The largest “moving day” in the history of A. & M. will come between January 17 and 24, ac cording to college housing author ities. Hart and Walton Halls will be vacated by veteran families and made available for single students. Students having apartments and graduating in January are asked to be ready to move on January 17. All other students in Hart and Walton Halls must be moved by January 24. However, college housing authorities urge them to be ready to move between January 17 and 24. Letters will be sent directing these students, and apartments will be ready to move into from the halls. Some of the new apartments on the old polo grounds will be ready for occupancy on January 17. These are to be equipped with part of the furniture used in Hart and Walton Halls. It’s Confoosing But Amoosing, the Batey- Baty Sports Question Is it Baty or Batey who is mak ing those basketball points for the Texas Aggies so far this season? It is Batey—Bill Batey, of Moul ton, Texas, and not Buryi Baty, of Paris, Texas, who was the Aggies’ touchdown passer in football this past season. Although they spell the names differently, they are pronounced the same. The current cage sensation, Bill Batey, came to_ the Aggies this year after making a name for him self during the war with Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. He stopped briefly at the University of Texas and then, with permis sion, moved over to Aggieland. Buryi Baty, although a eager in high school, has not tried college basketball, and Bill Batey, although a gridder at Moulton, did not try football in college. So to straighten out the matter —Bill Batey does not play football and Buryi Baty does not play basketball i< i!Sp^ rvists c >nY ffeet Tom rvists of Tomorrow enlisted reserve per- Enlistd Air Corl Air Corps sonnel will hold an organization meeting in the Assembly Hall, Wednesday evening, January 8, at 7:30 p. m. All those who are in terested should be present. that they, the Board of Regents, expected of their new coach, these two were paramount: “He must be able to work in harmony with the alumni, student body, and fac ulty; he must not expect a salary higher than that received by the university president.” Hot stove league reports have Coach Norton and Ed McKeever, formerly of Cornell University, as the top men in line for the California job. McKeever, who formerly played and coached for Pete Cawthon at Texas Tech, was assistant coach at Boston College and Notre Dame. He became head coach at Notre Dame when Frank Leahy went into the service during World War II, leaving there to become head coach at Cornell. McKeever’s con tract at Cornell was understood to be good for a lifetime. Cornell is noted for keeping its football coaches for a great length of time. The only two coaches that Cornell ever had guiding the destinies of its football team were Gil Dobie and Carl Snaveley. Snavely left that school for North Carolina of his own free will. Coach McKeever is said to have resigned at Cornell because he felt that the alumni were not giving him proper support in the matter of securing players. State Athletes to Be Guests at 2nd Football Banquet Highschool athletes from all parts of Texas will be guests of- the Brazos County A. & M. Club at the Second Annual Football Party, to be held in Sbisa Hall Saturday night. Additional entertainment f e a- tures have been announced by the committee in charge. The famous A Cappella Choir of Stephen F. Austin High School, Bryan, will sing a number of selections, includ ing “The Spirit of Aggieland.” This choir has received national recognition, and is booked to ap pear in as far away cities as San Francisco this year. The Aggie land Orchestra will play dinner music and for the dance, which will follow the presentation of football letters. W. R. “Bill” Carmichael, principal of the Stephen F. Austin High School in Bryan, will be toastmaster. As previously announced, Eddie Dyer, manager of the w o r 1 d’s champion St. Louis Cardinals, will be the speaker of the evening. During the program the win ners of the Lipscomb-Munnerlyn Most Valuable and Co-Captain tro phies and the Bert Pfaff Best Blocker trophy will be presented. The team has not elected the hon orary captains for the past sea son, and the selections will be an nounced by one of the players. Semester’s Final Examination Schedule Final examinations for this semester will be held from January 17-22, inclusive. The iods as follows: week will be divided into ten examination per- Period Date Hours K Januax-y 17, Friday 8-11 a.m. L January 17, Fi'iday 1- 4 p.m. M January 18, Saturday 8-11 a.m. N . January 18, Saturday 1- 4 p.m. P January 20, Monday 8-11 a.m. R Januax-y 20, Monday January 21, Tuesday 1- 4 p.m. S 8-11 a.m. T January 21, Tuesday January 22, Wednesday 1- 4 p.m. V 8-11 a.m. W January 22, Wednesday 1- 4 p.m. The letter at the end of each section number designates the per- iod of the week for the final examination of each course. For ex ample, for Mathematics 305, section 500L, the letter “L” indicates that the final examination in this course will be held during the second per iod of final examination week, which is 1 p.m. Friday, January 17. Since there are no final examinations in courses that are strictly lab oratory, the lettex “X” is used at the end of the section number of such courses. * No final examinations are officially scheduled for Thursday, Jan uary 23; however, a schedule for students with conflicting exams will be announced by the Registrar’s office. Conflicts will be taken after January 23.